The Wild continue their road trip in Tampa Bay tonight. Here is everything you need to know before puck drop.
The Minnesota Wild (4-0-2) continue their road trip in Tampa Bay tonight against the Lightning (4-2-0). Here is everything you need to know before puck drop.
Jared Spurgeon will not play tonight again. He has missed four straight games with a lower body injury. He will travel to Philadelphia on Saturday, which is a good sign.
Ryan Hartman will also not play tonight for the Wild. He has missed the last two games with an upper-body injury. He was not on the ice for morning skate on Thursday due to an illness.
Marc-Andre Fleury will get his second start of the season tonight. He last played two weeks ago against the Seattle Kraken.
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: Marc-Andre Fleury
Scratched: Daemon Hunt
Injured: Ryan Hartman (upper-body), Jared Spurgeon (lower-body)
Lightning's Projected Lines
Jake Guentzel - Brayden Point - Nikita Kucherov
Brandon Hagel - Anthony Cirelli - Connor Geekie
Mikey Eyssimont - Nic Paul - Mitchell Chaffee
Zemus Girgensons - Luke Glendening - Cam Atkinson
Defense:
Victor Hedman - JJ Moser
Ryan McDonagh - Erik Cernak
Emil Lilleberg - Nick Perbix
Starting Goaltender: Andrei Vasilevskiy
Scratched: Darren Raddysh
Injured: None
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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