The Wild are back in action tonight for a game on the road against the Winnipeg Jets.
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).
Wild's Projected Lines
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)
Jets' Projected Lines
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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