Spurgeon hits 1,000 games as Wild unveil their starting lineups against the Rangers. Kaprizov leads the charge against Shesterkin.
ST. PAUL, Minn. — The Minnesota Wild (38-16-12) is back in action tonight against the New York Rangers (27-20-8) for an early night game.
Tonight marks Jared Spurgeon's 1,000th career NHL game. All 1,000 of them have been with the Wild.
Here are tonight's lines.
Wild Projected Lineup
Kirill Kaprizov - Ryan Hartman - Mats Zuccarello
Marcus Johansson - Joel Eriksson Ek - Matt Boldy
Nick Foligno - Danila Yurov - Vladimir Tarasenko
Nico Sturm - Michael McCarron - Yakov Trenin
Defense:
Quinn Hughes - Brock Faber
Jonas Brodin - Jared Spurgeon
Jake Middleton - Zach Bogosian
Starting Goaltender: Jesper Wallstedt
Scratched: Daemon Hunt, Jeff Petry, Robby Fabbri.
Injured: Bobby Brink (shoulder), Marcus Foligno (lower-body).
Rangers Projected Lineup
Gabe Perreault - Mika Zibanejad - Alexis Lafrenière
Will Cuylle - Vincent Trocheck - JT Miller
Tye Kartye - Noah Laba - Conor Sheary
Tyler Raddysh - Adam Edström - Jaroslav Chmelař
Defense:
Vladislav Gavrikov - Adam Fox
Matthew Robertson - Brayden Schneider
Urho Vaakanainen - Will Borgen
Starting Goaltender: Igor Shesterkin
Scratched: Brett Berard, Jonny Brodzinski, Juuso Parssinen, Vincent Iorio.
Injured: Matt Rempe (upper-body).
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