Wild Vs Jets Game 3: Preview, Line Combinations

The Minnesota Wild (1-0-1) are back in action tonight for a game on the road against the Winnipeg Jets (2-0-0). 

Wild head coach John Hynes said Sunday that center Joel Eriksson Ek will not play tonight with a broken nose. Hynes also indicated that captain Jared Spurgeon will not play tonight with a lower-body injury and is day-to-day. 

Eriksson Ek is expected to travel to St. Louis on Tuesday to play. Spurgeon is being evaluated. Marcus Johansson was injured in last night's game as well but did return and played the whole third period. 

Liam Ohgren will make his season debut tonight. Johansson will take warmups and if he can't play, Travis Boyd will take his spot. 

Boyd, 31, was recalled from Iowa earlier today. The Wild sent Jesper Wallstedt down. If Johansson can't play I would imagine Ohgren would take his spot. If Johansson does play, Ohgren will likely play on the fourth line. 

Here are the projected lines (subject to change). 

Kirill Kaprizov - Marco Rossi - Mats Zuccarello

Marcus Johansson (Liam Ohgren) - Ryan Hartman - Matt Boldy

Marcus Foligno - Marat Khusnutdinov - Yakov Trenin

Jakub Lauko - Freddy Gaudreau - Liam Ohgren (Travis Boyd)

Defense:

Jonas Brodin - Brock Faber

Jake Middleton - Zach Bogosian

Jon Merrill - Declan Chisholm

Starting Goaltender: Filip Gustavsson

Scratched: Travis Boyd

Injured: Joel Eriksson Ek (Broken Nose), Jared Spurgeon (Lower-body)

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

Dylan Samberg - Neal Pionk

Haydn Fleury - Colin Miller

Starting Goaltender: Connor Hellebuyck

Scratched: David Gustafsson, Dylan Coghlan

Injured: Logan Stanley, Jaret Anderson-Dolan

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