(3-31-25) Wild Vs New Jersey: Game Preview, Line Combinations

Mar 29, 2025; Saint Paul, Minnesota, USA; Minnesota Wild center Yakov Trenin (13) shoots just wide of the net as New Jersey Devils defenseman Brenden Dillon (5) is back on defense in the third period at Xcel Energy Center. Mandatory Credit: Matt Blewett-Imagn Images.

The Minnesota Wild (41-28-5) is back in action tonight to face the New Jersey Devils (39-29-7) again. The Wild are coming off a 5-2 loss to New Jersey on Saturday and are 5-4-1 in their last ten. 

New Jersey is coming off a win and is 5-4-1 in its last ten games. Filip Gustavsson will start again for the Wild. He let up all five goals in his last game and is 29-17-4 on the season with a 2.51 goals-against average and a .916 save percentage. 

Jacob Markstrom is projected to start again as well. He is 24-14-6 on the season with a 2.50 goals-against average and a .900 save percentage. 

The Wild will not make any changes to their lineup tonight. New Jersey isn't projected to make any changes either other than Curtis Lazar drawing back in. He was a healthy scratch on Saturday. 

Here are tonight's projected lines (subject to change). 

Wild Projected Lines

Matt Boldy - Marco Rossi - Vinnie Hinostroza

Marcus Johansson - Freddy Gaudreau - Mats Zuccarello

Marcus Foligno - Ryan Hartman - Gustav Nyquist

Yakov Trenin - Devin Shore - Justin Brazeau

Defense:

Jake Middleton - Brock Faber

Jonas Brodin - Jared Spurgeon

Jon Merrill - Zach Bogosian

Starting Goaltender: Filip Gustavsson 

Scratched: Brendan Gaunce

Injured: Kirill Kaprizov (lower), Joel Eriksson Ek (lower), Declan Chisholm (lower). 

New Jersey's Projected Lines

Stefan Noesen - Nico Hischier - Jesper Bratt 

Erik Haula - Dawson Mercer - Timo Meier

Ondrej Palat - Justin Dowling - Tomas Tatar

Paul Cotter - Curtis Lazar - Daniel Sprong

Defense:

 Luke Hughes - Brett Pesce

Brian Dumoulin - Jonathan Kovacevic

Brendan Dillon - Simon Nemec

Starting Goaltender: Jacob Markstrom

Scratched: Kurtis MacDermid, Nathan Bastian, Dennis Cholowski, Nolan Foote. 

Injured: Jack Hughes (upper), Jonas Siegenthaler (undisclosed), Cody Glass (undisclosed), Dougie Hamilton (lower). 

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