Here is everything you need to know before puck drop tonight.
The Minnesota Wild (11-3-3) are on the road tonight to face the St. Louis Blues (8-10-1). They kick off a three-game road trip tonight. The Wild are coming off a loss and are 6-3-1 in their last ten games.
The Blues are also coming off a loss and are 3-6-1 in their last ten games. They will welcome back Robert Thomas though, who has missed the last four weeks with a fractured ankle.
Devin Shore and Ben Jones were recalled by the Wild on Sunday. Shore will sit out tonight and Jones will make his Wild debut on a line with Marat Khusnutdinov and Jakub Lauko.
Filip Gustavsson starts again for the Wild. It is his fifth consecutive start in goal. With a back-to-back in Alberta, Marc-Andre Fleury will start either against the Calgary Flames or the Edmonton Oilers.
The last time Gustavsson started in St. Louis, he scored a goal. It also happened to be an ESPN+ game. Tonight is also on ESPN+.
Here are tonight's projected lines (subject to change).
Wild Projected Lines
Kirill Kaprizov - Joel Eriksson Ek - Matt Boldy
Marcus Johansson - Marco Rossi - Ryan Hartman
Marcus Foligno - Freddy Gaudreau - Yakov Trenin
Jakub Lauko - Marat Khusnutdinov - Ben Jones
Defense:
Jake Middleton - Brock Faber
Jonas Brodin - Jared Spurgeon
Declan Chisholm - Zach Bogosian
Starting Goaltender: Filip Gustavsson
Scratched: Devin Shore, Jon Merrill
Injured: Mats Zuccarello (lower-body).
Blues Projected Lines
Pavel Buchnevich - Robert Thomas - Jordan Kyrou
Brandon Saad - Brayden Schenn - Jake Neighbours
Alexey Toropchenko - Radek Faksa - Nathan Walker
Zack Bolduc - Dylan Holloway - Alexandre Texier
Defense:
Ryan Suter - Colton Parayko
Scott Perunovich - Justin Faulk
Pierre-Oliver Joesph - Matthew Kessel
Starting Goaltender: Jordan Binnington
Scratched: Corey Schueneman, Mathieu Joseph
Injured: Nick Leddy (lower-body), Torey Krug (lower-body, out for the season), Philip Broberg (lower-body).
How to Watch & Listen: Tonight's game will be on ESPN+. John Buccigross will be on the play-by-play with AJ Mleczko as the color analyst. 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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