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).