The Wild finish a brief two game home-stand with a game against the Canucks hoping to improve to 12-12-4 on the year.
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The Wild host the Vancouver Canucks for a 1:00 p.m. matinee. the Wild's lineup will pretty much be the same as Thursday's with the exception of Daemon Hunt drawing into the lineup.
Wild projected lines
Kaprizov-Eriksson Ek-Boldy
Johansson-Rossi-Zuccarello
Foligno-Gaudreau-Maroon
Duhaime-Dewar-Hartman
Defense pairs:
Middleton-Faber
Goligoski-Bogosian
Merrill-Hunt
Starting Goaltender: Gustavsson
Canucks projected lines
Ilya Mikheyev - Eilas Pettersson - Tyler Lafferty
Nils Hoglander - J.T. Miller- Brock Boeser
Dakota Joshua - Teddy Blueger - Conor Garland
Andrei Kuzmenko - Pius Suter - Philip Di Giuseppe
Defense pairs:
Quinn Hughes - Filip Hronek
Nikita Zadorov - Tylers Myers
Ian Cole - Noah Juulsen
Starting Goaltender: Casey DeSmith