Here is everything you need to know before puck drop tonight.
The Minnesota Wild (20-9-4) are back in action tonight following their 2-1 loss to the Utah Hockey Club on Friday. They are on the second of a back-to-back tonight in Winnipeg.
The Winnipeg Jets (23-10-1) are currently first in the Central Divison but are 5-4-1 in their last ten games and are coming off a loss. The Wild are 5-5-0 in their last ten and have lost three straight games.
Minnesota has lost five of its last seven games as well. They did not have a morning skate on Saturday because they played last night. Travis Dermott played yesterday with Jon Merrill sitting out.
John Hynes and the Wild may look to swap the two again tonight but we won't know until line rushes in warmups roughly 30 minutes before the game.
One thing we do know, Jesper Wallstedt will start tonight. It will be his fifth start of his career and second of the season. His last game was against the Vegas Golden Knights last Sunday. The Wild dropped that game 3-2.
Here are tonight's projected lines (subject to change).
Wild's Projected Lines
Kirill Kaprizov - Marco Rossi - Mats Zuccarello
Marcus Johansson - Freddy Gaudreau - Matt Boldy
Marcus Foligno - Marat Khusnutdinov - Ryan Hartman
Devin Shore - Brendan Gaunce - Travis Boyd
Defense:
Jonas Brodin - Brock Faber
Declan Chisholm - Jared Spurgeon
Jon Merrill - Zach Bogosian
Starting Goaltender: Jesper Wallstedt
Scratched: Travis Dermott, Ben Jones
Injured: Filip Gustavsson (lower), Jakub Lauko (lower), Jake Middleton (upper), Joel Eriksson Ek (lower), Yakov Trenin (upper)
Jets Projected Lines
Kyle Connor - Mark Scheifele - Gabe Vilardi
Cole Perfetti - Vladislav Namestnikov - Nikolaj Ehlers
Nino Niederreiter - Adam Lowry - Mason Appleton
Morgan Barron - Rasmus Kupari - Alex Iafallo
Defense:
Josh Morrissey - Dylan DeMelo
Haydn Fleury - Neal Pionk
Logan Stanley - Colin Miller
Starting Goaltender: Connor Hellebuyck
Scratched: Ville Heinola
Injured: Dylan Samberg (lower), David Gustafsson (upper)
How to Watch & Listen: Tonight's game will be on Fanduel Sports Network North. Anthony LaPanta will be on the play-by-play with Wes Walz as the color analyst and Kevin Gorg a reporter. 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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