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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