(4-4-25) Wild Vs Islanders: Game Preview, Line Combinations

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The Minnesota Wild (41-28-7) is on the road tonight against the New York Islanders (32-32-10) for a 6:30 game. The Islanders have lost four-straight games and are 3-4-3 in their last ten games. 

Minnesota has loss its last two games in overtime and is 4-4-2 in its last ten games. Filip Gustavsson will start again for the Wild tonight. He will start against Ilya Sorokin tonight. 

Gustavsson is 29-17-6 on this season with a 2.54 goals-against average and a .916 save percentage. He has five shutouts on the season. 

Sorokin is 27-23-6 on the year with a 2.79 goals-against average and a .904 save percentage with three shutouts. 

Jon Merrill will enter the lineup tonight for the Wild as the only change. Declan Chisholm returned from his injury against the New York Rangers but will be a scratch tonight for Merrill. 

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

Wild Projected Lines

Marcus Foligno - Marco Rossi - Matt Boldy

Marcus Johansson - Freddy Gaudreau - Mats Zuccarello

Gustav Nyquist - Ryan Hartman - Vinnie Hinostroza

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, Declan Chisholm

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

Islanders Projected Lines

Anders Lee - Bo Horvat - Kyle Palmieri 

Maxim Tysplakov - JP Pageau - Simon Holmstrom

Pierre Engvall - Casey Cizikas - Hudson Fasching

Matt Martin - Kyle MacLean - Marc Gatcomb

Defense:

Adam Pelech - Ryan Pulock

Alexander Romanov - Tony DeAngelo 

Noah Dobson - Scott Mayfield

Starting Goaltender: Ilya Sorokin

Scratched: Adam Boqvist, Scott Perunovich, Mike Reilly.

Injured: Anthony Duclair (leave of absence), Matthew Barzal (lower), Semyon Varlamov (lower). 

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