Here is everything you need to know before puck drop tonight.
ST. PAUL - The Minnesota Wild (32-19-4) is in action tonight against the New York Islanders (25-21-7) for one more game before the 4 Nations two week break.
The Wild will be without Joel Eriksson Ek tonight. He is out with a lower-body injury. They will go with 11 forwards and seven defensemen.
New York is coming off a loss to the Winnipeg Jets last night and is 8-2-0 in its last ten games. The Islanders lost 4-3 to the Jets in Winnipeg yesterday.
Minnesota is coming off a win and is 5-5-0 in its last ten games. This is the first of two meetings between the two teams this year.
Ilya Sorokin started last night's game in Winnipeg and will start again tonight. The Isles are without two goaltenders due to injuries.
Here are tonight's projected lines (subject to change).
Wild Projected Lines
Matt Boldy - Marco Rossi - Mats Zuccarello
Marcus Johansson - Freddy Gaudreau - Vinnie Hinostroza
Marcus Foligno - Marat Khusnutdinov - Liam Ohgren
Devin Shore - Yakov Trenin
Defense:
Jake Middleton - Brock Faber
Jonas Brodin - Jared Spurgeon
Jon Merrill - Zach Bogosian
Declan Chisholm
Starting Goaltender: Filip Gustavsson
Scratched: Travis Dermott
Injured: Kirill Kaprizov (lower), Jakub Lauko (lower), Joel Eriksson Ek (lower).
Islanders Projected Lines
Anders Lee - Bo Hovart - Anthony Duclair
Maxim Tsyplakov - Brock Nelson - Kyle Palmieri
Casey Cizikas - Jean-Gabriel Pageau - Simon Holmstrom
Pierre Engvall - Kyle MacLean - Marc Gatcomb
Defense:
Alexander Romanov - Tony DeAngelo
Adam Pelech - Scott Perunovich
Dennis Cholowski - Adam Boqvist
Starting Goaltender: Ilya Sorokin
Scratched: Hudson Fasching, Matt Martin
Injured: Mathew Barzal (lower body), Scott Mayfield (lower body), Noah Dobson (lower body), Ryan Pulock (upper body), Marcus Hogberg (upper body) Semyon Varlamov (lower body), Mike Reilly (heart surgery).
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 as the 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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