Here is everything you need to know before puck drop.
The Minnesota Wild (17-4-4) are back in action tonight to square off against the Anaheim Ducks (10-11-3). The Ducks are coming off a loss and are 5-4-1 in their last ten games. The Wild are coming off four straight wins and are 7-2-1 in their last ten.
Newly acquired defenseman Jacob Trouba will not play tonight for the Ducks. He was acquired earlier from the New York Rangers.
The Wild announced earlier in the week that Jonas Brodin and Joel Eriksson Ek were out week-to-week. They just announced today that Eriksson Ek will join Brodin on the Injured Reserve list.
Reese Johnson will make his Wild debut tonight on the fourth line. Filip Gustavsson will start for Minnesota which leaves Marc-Andre Fleury as the probable starter on Saturday against the Los Angeles Kings.
Here are tonight's projected lines (subject to change).
Wild's Projected Lines
Kirill Kaprizov - Marco Rossi - Matt Boldy
Marcus Foligno - Ryan Hartman - Marcus Johansson
Devin Shore - Freddy Gaudreau - Yakov Trenin
Ben Jones - Marat Khusnutdinov - Reese Johnson
Defense:
Jake Middleton - Brock Faber
Declan Chisholm - Jared Spurgeon
Jon Merrill - Zach Bogosian
Starting Goaltender: Filip Gustavsson
Scratched: David Jiricek, Travis Boyd
Injured: Mats Zuccarello (lower), Jakub Lauko (lower), Joel Eriksson Ek (lower), Jonas Brodin (upper)
Ducks Projected Lines
Cutter Gauthier - Mason McTavish - Alex Killorn
Frank Vatrano - Ryan Strome - Troy Terry
Brock McGinn - Isac Lundestrom - Brett Leason
Ross Johnston - Jansen Harkins - Sam Colangelo
Defense:
Cam Fowler - Radko Gudas
Jackson LaCombe - Olen Zellweger
Brian Dumoulin - Drew Helleson
Starting Goaltender: John Gibson
Scratched: Pavel Mintyukov, Jacob Trouba
Injured: Trevor Zegras (lower), Leo Carlsson (upper), Robby Fabbri (lower)
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 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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