Oct 28, 2026 12:57 AM
Jesper Wallstedt takes the crease as Minnesota battles Utah’s formidable home record. Discover the defensive pairings and offensive trios tasked with ending the Wild’s road trip on top.
The Minnesota Wild (8-3-2) is back in action tonight against the Utah Mammoth (8-4-0) for one last game of the road trip.
Not many changes for the Wild tonight. Jesper Wallstedt will be back between the pipes tonight.
The Mammoth are 4-1-0 at home to start the season and are coming off a 5-4 overtime comeback win over the Tampa Bay Lightning.
Here are tonight's projected lines.
Wild Projected Lineup
Kirill Kaprizov - Joel Eriksson Ek - Matt Boldy
Blake Coleman - Michael McCarron - Bobby Brink
Yakov Trenin - Danila Yurov - Maxim Shabanov
Nico Sturm - Ryan Hartman - Tyler Pitlick
Defense:
Quinn Hughes - Jared Spurgeon
Olli Maatta - Jonas Brodin
Matt Kiersted - Zach Bogosian
Starting Goaltender: Jesper Wallstedt
Scratched: David Spacek, Mason Shaw.
Injured: Marcus Foligno (Mid-Body), Brock Faber (Upper-Body, Indefinitely), Filip Gustavsson (Lower-Body, LTIR), Nick Foligno (Upper-Body, Day-To-Day).
Mammoth Projected Lineup
Clayton Keller - Nick Schmaltz - Lawson Crouse
Logan Cooley - Vincent Trocheck - Dylan Guenther
Anders Lee - Barrett Hayton - Kailer Yamamoto
Jack McBain - Kevin Stenlund - Liam O’Brien
Defense:
Mikhail Sergachev - Mackenzie Weegar
Nate Schmidt - Andrew Peeke
Dmitri Simashev - Nick DeSimone
Starting Goaltender: Karel Vejmelka
Scratched: Artem Duda, Daniil But.
Injured: Maveric Lamoureux (Upper-Body), Michael Carcone (Upper-Body), John Marino (Upper-Body).
WILD (8-3-2) at MAMMOTH (8-4-0)
9 p.m. ET, 8 p.m. CT; Mammoth+, Wild+, MINNHL, Utah16
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