The Wild are on the road tonight against the Vegas Golden Knights, here's everything you need to know before puck drop.
The Wild are on the road tonight against the Vegas Golden Knights, here's everything you need to know before puck drop.The Minnesota Wild (23-23-5) start a short road trip tonight with a 9:00 p.m. CT game against the Vegas Golden Knights (31-15-6). The Wild have won their last two games and are 6-4-0 in their last ten. The Golden Knights have also won their last two games but are 7-2-1 in their last ten.
Wild forward Marcus Foligno did not travel with the Wild and was placed on the Injured Reserve list earlier today. Forward Connor Dewar was activated from the IR and will play tonight after missing the last six games.
Adam Beckman was recalled from Iowa of the AHL earlier but will not play for the Wild tonight.
Minnesota is fourth all-time in the NHL in points (28), T-3rd in wins (12), and fourth in point percentage (.636) against Vegas but went 0-2-1 against the Golden Knights last season. Tonight marks the first of three games against the Knights this season.
With Foligno's injury, Brandon Duhaime is expected to move up in the lineup to play with Ryan Hartman and Freddy Gaudreau. Dewar will take Duhaime's spot on Jake Luchhini's line with Vinni Lettieri.
Wild Projected Lines
Kaprizov - Eriksson Ek - Boldy
Johansson - Rossi - Zuccarello
Duhaime - Hartman - Gaudreau
Dewar - Lucchini - Lettieri
Defense:
Middleton - Faber
Brodin - Bogosian
Merrill - Mermis
Starting Goaltender: Gustavsson
Scratched: F Adam Beckman, D Alex Goligoski, D Declan Chisholm
Injured: D Jared Spurgeon, F Marcus Foligno, F Pat Maroon
Golden Knights Projected Lines
Ivan Barbashev - Nicolas Roy - Jonathan Marchessault
Paul Cotter - Chandler Stephenson - Mark Stone
Brendan Brisson - William Karlsson - Mike Amadio
Jonas Rondbjerg - Brett Howden - Keegan Kolesar
Defense:
Alec Martinez - Alex Pietrangelo
Brayden McNabb - Zach Whitecloud
Nicolas Hague - Daniil Miromanov
Starting Goaltender: Adin Hill
Scratched: None
Injured: D Shea Theodore, D Ben Hutton, D Tobias Bjornfot, F Alex Carrier, F Jack Eichel, F Pavel Dorofeyev
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