Here are tonight's projected lineups for the Minnesota Wild vs Nashville Predators game.
ST. PAUL - The Minnesota Wild (30-27-7) face the Nashville Predators (37-25-3) on home ice today for a 2:30 p.m. CT matinee.
The Predators are 9-0-1 in their last ten games and are on a two-game win streak. They currently hold onto the first wild card spot in the west with 77 points. The Wild are ten points back and are 5-4-1 in their last ten games.
Adam Beckman is set to play in his third straight game today. He has one assist in two games so far and is averaging about ten minutes of ice time a night.
Marat Khusnutdinov, whom the Wild signed to an entry-level contract over a week ago, arrived in Minnesota yesterday but will likely not be in the lineup today.
Jake Middleton has missed the last two games for the Wild with an upper-body injury but could be in the lineup today.
Wild Projected Lines
Kaprizov - Eriksson Ek - Boldy
Zuccarello - Rossi - Hartman
Foligno - Gaudreau - Beckman
Shaw - Lucchini - Lettieri
Defense:
Brodin - Faber
Mermis - Bogosian
Merrill - Chisholm
Projected Starter: Fleury
Scratched: D Goligoski
Injured: D Spurgeon, D Middleton, & F Johansson
Predators Projected Lines
Filip Forsberg - Ryan O'Reilly - Gustav Nyquist
Jason Zucker - Colton Sissons - Anthony Beauvillier
Mark Jankowski - Tommy Novak - Luke Evangelista
Cole Smith - Michael McCarron - Kiefer Sherwood
Defense:
Roman Josi - Dante Fabbro
Ryan McDonagh - Luke Schenn
Jeremy Lauzon - Alexandre Carrier
Projected Starter: Juuse Saros
Scratched: D Tyson Barrie, F Cody Glass, & F Jaret Anderson-Dolan
Injured: None
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