Projected Lineups for the Wild vs Blues - 10/15/24 - The Hockey Writers - Projected Lineups

The Minnesota Wild take on the St. Louis Blues at the Enterprise Center tonight. Here are the projected/expected lineups sourced from NHL.com staff writers, independent correspondents, and others.

WILD (1-0-2) at BLUES (2-1-0)

7:30 p.m. ET; ESPN

Wild projected lineup

Kirill Kaprizov — Marco Rossi — Mats Zuccarello
Liam Ohgren — Ryan Hartman — Matt Boldy
Marcus Foligno — Marat Khusnutdinov — Yakov Trenin
Jakub Lauko — Frederick Gaudreau

Jake Middleton — Jonas Brodin
Jon Merrill — Zach Bogosian
Daemon Hunt — Declan Chisholm
Brock Faber

Filip Gustavsson
Marc-Andre Fleury

Scratched: None

Injured: Joel Eriksson Ek (broken nose), Jared Spurgeon (lower body), Marcus Johansson (undisclosed)

Status report

The Wild could dress 11 forwards and seven defensemen.
Eriksson Ek, a forward, and Spurgeon, a defenseman, each will miss a second straight game.
Johansson, a forward, is questionable.
Hunt, a defenseman, was recalled from Iowa of the American Hockey League on Monday and could make his season debut.

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Blues projected lineup

Brandon Saad — Robert Thomas — Jake Neighbours
Zack Bolduc — Pavel Buchnevich — Jordan Kyrou
Dylan Holloway — Brayden Schenn — Mathieu Joseph
Alexey Toropchenko — Radek Faksa — Nathan Walker

Nick Leddy — Colton Parayko
Philip Broberg — Justin Faulk
Ryan Suter — Matthew Kessel

Jordan Binnington
Joel Hofer

Scratched: Kasperi Kapanen, P.O. Joseph, Scott Perunovich

Injured: Alexandre Texier (upper body), Oskar Sundqvist (knee), Torey Krug (ankle)

Status report

Saad will make his season debut and play on the top line after his wife Alyssa delivered the couple’s third child, a daughter named Lyra, on Thursday.
To make room for Saad on the roster, Texier, a forward, was placed on injured reserve Monday.
Kapanen, a forward, will be a healthy scratch.

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