The Wild are back in action tonight for their final preseason game.
The Minnesota Wild (3-2-0) are back in action tonight for their final game of the preaseaon against the Chicago Blackhawks (0-3-1) at The United Center in Chicago.
Minnesota will treat tonight's game as a dress rehearsel. But both Matt Boldy and Jake Middleton will not play. Wild head coach John Hynes said on Thursday that their status for friday does not indicate what it will be on opening night next week.
Both Middleton and Boldy are closing in on being heathly. Just wasn't worth the risk. Marc-Andre Fleury will start and play the whole game for the Wild tonight.
The Wild made one lineup change. Marco Rossi will now center the top line, moving Ryan Hartman to the third line.
Here are tonight's projected lines for both teams.
Wild Projected Lines
Kirill Kaprizov - Marco Rossi - Mats Zuccarello
Marcus Johansson - Joel Eriksson Ek - Liam Ohgren
Marcus Foligno - Ryan Hartman - Yakov Trenin
Jakub Lauko - Marat Khusnutdinov - Freddy Gaudreau
Defense:
Jonas Brodin - Jared Spurgeon
Declan Chisholm - Brock Faber
Jon Merrill - Daemon Hunt
Starting Goaltender: Marc-Andre Fleury
Scratched: Matt Boldy, Ben Jones, Zach Bogosian, Jake Middleton
Blackhawks Projected Lines
Teuvo Teravainen - Connor Bedard - Tyler Bertuzzi
Taylor Hall - Philip Kurashev - Ilya Mikheyev
Nick Foligno - Jason Dickinson - Joey Anderson
Pat Maroon - Ryan Donato - Craig Smith
Defense:
TJ Brodie - Seth Jones
Alex Vlasic - Connor Murphy
Nolan Allen - Isaak Phillips
Starting Goaltender: Petr Mrazek
Scratched: Andreas Athanasiou, Brandon Baddock, Lukas Reichel, Wyatt Kaiser, Alec Martinez
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