Projected Lineups for the Wild vs Panthers – 10/22/24

The Minnesota Wild take on the Florida Panthers at Amerant Bank Arena tonight. Here are the projected/expected lineups sourced from NHL.com staff writers, independent correspondents, and others.

WILD (3-0-2) at PANTHERS (4-2-1)

6:30 p.m. ET; FDSNWI, FDSNNO, SCRIPPS

Wild projected lineup

Kirill Kaprizov — Marco Rossi — Mats Zuccarello
Marcus Johansson — Joel Eriksson Ek — Matt Boldy
Marcus Foligno — Marat Khusnutdinov — Yakov Trenin
Jakub Lauko — Frederick Gaudreau — Liam Ohgren

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

Filip Gustavsson
Marc-Andre Fleury

Scratched: Daemon Hunt

Injured: Jared Spurgeon (lower body), Ryan Hartman (upper body)

Status report

• Wild coach John Hynes said Spurgeon, a defenseman, has resumed skating in Minnesota. He has missed the past three games.

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Panthers projected lineup

Eetu Luostarinen — Anton Lundell — Sam Reinhart
Carter Verhaeghe — Sam Bennett — Matthew Tkachuk
A.J. Greer — Jesper Boqvist — Mackie Samoskevich
Evan Rodrigues — Patrick Giles — Uvis Balinskis

Gustav Forsling — Aaron Ekblad
Niko Mikkola — Dmitry Kulikov
Adam Boqvist — Nate Schmidt

Sergei Bobrovsky
Spencer Knight

Scratched: None

Injured: Jonah Gadjovich (back), Aleksander Barkov (lower body), Tomas Nosek (upper body)

Status report

• Tkachuk returns for the Panthers after missing the past five games.
• Barkov, a center, could return later this week.
• Gadjovich, a forward, will miss his third straight game.

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