The Wild continue their road trip in Florida tonight against the Panthers.
The Minnesota Wild (3-0-2) are back in action tonight for another road game. They play the Florida Panthers (4-2-1) in the Sunshine State.
Minnesota will be without Ryan Hartman tonight for the second straight game and will also be without Jared Spurgeon for the fourth straight game.
Wild head coach John Hynes said on Tuesday that Spurgeon is skating in Minnesota but the Wild are unsure if he will join them for their two games this weekend.
For the Panthers, they will be without Aleksander Barkov again but will welcome back Matthew Tkachuk. He missed the last five games due to an illness but will enter the lineup against the Wild.
The Panthers are projected to go with 11 forwards and seven defensemen for tonight's game.
Sergei Bobrovsky starts for the Panthers against Filip Gustavsson for Minnesota. It will be Gustavsson's fourth consecutive start. Marc-Andre Fleury is expected to start in Tampa Bay on Thursday against the Lightning.
Here are tonight's projected lines (subject to change).
Wild's Projected Lines
Kirill Kaprizov - Marco Rossi - Mats Zuccarello
Marcus Johansson - Joel Eriksson Ek - Matt Boldy
Marcus Foligno - Marat Khusnutdinov - Yakov Trenin
Jakub Lauko - Freddy Gaudreau - Liam Ohgren
Defense:
Jake Middleton - Brock Faber
Jonas Brodin - Zach Bogosian
Jon Merrill - Declan Chisholm
Starting Goaltender: Filip Gustavsson
Scratched: Daemon Hunt
Injured: Ryan Hartman (upper-body), Jared Spurgeon (lower-body)
Panthers' Projected Lines
Eetu Luostarinen – Anton Lundell – Sam Reinhart
Carter Verhaeghe – Sam Bennett – Matthew Tkachuk
Evan Rodrigues – Jesper Boqvist – Mackie Samoskevich
A.J. Greer – Patrick Giles –
Defense:
Gustav Forsling – Aaron Ekblad
Niko Mikkola – Dmitry Kulikov
Nate Schmidt – Adam Boqvist
Uvis Balinskis
Starting Goaltender: Sergei Bobrovsky
Scratched: None
Injured: Jonah Gadjovich (upper-body), Aleksander Barkov (lower-body), Tomas Nosek (upper-body).
How to Watch & Listen: Tonight's game will be on Fanduel Sports Network North. Anthony LaPanta will be on the play-by-play with Ryan Carter and Kevin Gorg. The radio broadcast will be on KFAN FM 100.3 with Joe O'Donnell behind the mic doing the play-by-play. Tom Reid as the color analyst and Kevin Falness as the Studio Host.
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