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ST. PAUL – The Minnesota Wild (41-29-7) hosts the Dallas Stars (50-22-4) for an afternoon game today against a divisional rival.
The Wild will be without defenseman Jake Middleton tonight but head coach John Hynes said before the game that Middleton avoided a major injury.
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Filip Gustavsson will start again for the Wild today. It is his 13th straight in the Wild’s last 14 games.
Hometown kid Jake Oettinger will start today for the Stars. He is 36-15-3 on the year with a 2.45 goals-against average and a .912 save percentage. He is 7-0-2 against the Wild in his career with a 2.13 goals-against average and a .922 save percentage.
Declan Chisholm will enter the lineup tonight for Middleton. No other changes for the Wild. The Wild recalled defenseman Cameron Crotty from the AHL but he won’t play.
Here are tonight’s projected lines (subject to change).
Marcus Foligno – Marco Rossi – Matt Boldy
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Marcus Johansson – Freddy Gaudreau – Mats Zuccarello
Gustav Nyquist – Ryan Hartman – Vinnie Hinostroza
Yakov Trenin – Devin Shore – Justin Brazeau
Defense:
Jonas Brodin – Brock Faber
Declan Chisholm – Jared Spurgeon
Jon Merrill – Zach Bogosian
Starting Goaltender: Filip Gustavsson
Scratched: Brendan Gaunce, Cameron Crotty
Injured: Kirill Kaprizov (lower), Joel Eriksson Ek (lower), Jake Middleton (upper).
Jason Robertson – Roope Hintz – Mikko Rantanen
Mason Marchment – Matt Duchene – Mikael Granlund
Jamie Benn – Wyatt Johnston – Evgenii Dadonov
Oscar Back – Sam Steel – Mavrik Bourque
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Defense:
Thomas Harley – Ilya Lyubushkin
Esa Lindell – Cody Ceci
Lian Bichsel – Matt Dumba
Starting Goaltender: Jake Oettinger
Scratched: Brendan Smith, Colin Blackwell
Injured: Miro Heiskanen (lower), Nils Lundkvist (upper), Tyler Seguin (lower).
