Projected Lineups for the Wild vs Oilers – 11/21/24 - The Hockey Writers - Projected Lineups

The Minnesota Wild take on the Edmonton Oilers at Rogers Place tonight. Here are the projected/expected lineups sourced from NHL.com staff writers, independent correspondents, and others.

WILD (12-3-3) at OILERS (10-8-2)

9 p.m. TVAS, SNW, FDSNNOX, FDSNWI

Wild projected lineup

Kirill Kaprizov — Joel Eriksson Ek — Matt Boldy
Marcus Johansson — Marco Rossi — Ryan Hartman
Marcus Foligno — Frederick Gaudreau — Yakov Trenin
Jakub Lauko — Marat Khusnutdinov — Devin Shore

Jake Middleton — Brock Faber
Jonas Brodin — Jared Spurgeon
Declan Chisholm — Zach Bogosian

Marc Andre-Fleury
Filip Gustavsson

Scratched: Ben Jones, John Merrill

Injured: None

Status report

Shore, who signed with Minnesota on July 1, will play his first game with the Wild and first in the NHL since Jan. 24, 2024, when he was a member of the Seattle Kraken.

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Oilers projected lineup

Vasily Podkolzin — Connor McDavid — Leon Draisaitl
Jeff Skinner — Ryan Nugent-Hopkins — Kasperi Kapanen
Mattias Janmark — Adam Henrique — Connor Brown
Drake Caggiula — Derek Ryan — Corey Perry

Mattias Ekholm — Evan Bouchard
Brett Kulak — Troy Stecher
Travis Dermott — Ty Emberson

Stuart Skinner
Calvin Pickard

Scratched: Josh Brown

Injured: Viktor Arvidsson (undisclosed), Zach Hyman (undisclosed), Darnell Nurse (head)

Status report

The Oilers are keeping Draisaitl on the top line with McDavid, as they did in their previous game, a 5-2 win against the Ottawa Senators.
Brown, a defenseman, was loaned back to the Bakersfield Condors of the American Hockey League on Wednesday and recalled Thursday, but will not play.
With six defensemen dressed, the Oilers will end a run of four games with a modified 11-7.
The Oilers claimed Kapanen off waivers from the St. Louis Blues, and Caggiula was recalled from Bakersfield. They will play in place of the injured forwards Arvidsson and Hyman; the former has been placed on injured reserve.

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