Wild @ Leafs - Jan. 19th, 7:30pm - Prime

[CarltonTheBear]

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Minnesota Wild 27-13-9, 63 points​	vs.​	Toronto Maple Leafs 24-16-8, 56 pts​

Projected Line-ups​

Kaprizov-Hartman-Zuccarello Trenin-Yurov-Tarasenko Foligno-Haight-Hinostroza Jones-Sturm-Pitlick Hughes-Faber Middleton-Spurgeon Hunt-Jiricek Gustavsson​

McMann-Matthews-Domi Maccelli-Tavares-Knies Cowan-Roy-Robertson Lorentz-Laughton-Jarnkrok Rielly-Carlo McCabe-Stecher OEL-Myers Woll​

Scratches​

Nicolas Aube-Kubel David Spacek​

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William Nylander Simon Benoit Matt Benning​

Injuries​

Joel Eriksson Ek - Lower Body - Injured Reserve Matt Boldy - Undisclosed - Injured Reserve Marcus Johansson - Lower Body - Injured Reserve Jonas Brodin - Lower Body - Injured Reserve Zach Bogosian - Undisclosed - Injured Reserve​

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William Nylander - Lower Body - Day to day Simon Benoit - Upper Body - Day to day Dakota Joshua - Upper Body - Injured Reserve Chris Tanev - Lower Body - Injured Reserve Dakota Mermis - Lower Body - Injured Reserve Anthony Stolarz - Upper Body - Injured Reserve​

Game Notes​

MIN -Filip Gustavsson will likely start for the Wild -Quinn Hughes has 18 points in 17 games since being acquired by the Wild. Minnesota is 9-4-4 since the trade

TOR -Joseph Woll will likely start for the Leafs

Streams​

Sportsurge OnHockey NHL66​

 

[Frank E]

A lot of bigger guns out of the lineup for the Wild.

 

[L K]

This is probably every bit the trap game as the Utah one. A tough 4 game road trip and now the first game back home with a more important division game against up next

 

[CarltonTheBear]

A lot of bigger guns out of the lineup for the Wild.

Top centre, 2nd best winger, 2nd best defenceman. Marcus Johansson is also strangely having a career season at the age of 35 so that's not nothing either.

Another thing to note about Minny is that their insane goaltending duo of Gustavsson and Wallstedt have come back to earth. Prior to January 1st this season they had the 2nd best overall save percentage in the league just behind Colorado. Since January 1st though after 8 games they sit 25th.

 

[herman]

Quillan got the call up and would probably be an improvement over Jarnkrok and even Cowan right now. So naturally, I expect him to watch from the pressbox.

But Knies is skipping practice again and is a game-time decision; he has been a drag on Tavares' wing, eh... they're mutually dragging each other, so maybe Laughton gets bumped up.

https://twitter.com/x/status/2013287796757115311

 

[L K]

Quillan got the call up and would probably be an improvement over Jarnkrok and even Cowan right now. So naturally, I expect him to watch from the pressbox.

But Knies is skipping practice again and is a game-time decision; he has been a drag on Tavares' wing, eh... they're mutually dragging each other, so maybe Laughton gets bumped up.

https://twitter.com/x/status/2013287796757115311

That's not a Berube move. Laughton plays 4th line minutes and not a second more. Robertson plays 10-12 minutes regardless of how hes playing. Myers gets 8000 chances to prove that he isn't an NHL defenseman.

 

[herman]

https://twitter.com/x/status/2013274866359623701

Hmm

 

[Bender]

Really hoping we get to see Quillan.

*Edit: I guess we are!

 

[CarltonTheBear]

https://twitter.com/x/status/2013287796757115311

Knies has 4 points in his last 8 games, and went pointless in 6 of those games. Since December 1st he's been playing at a 50-point pace after putting up 20 points in his first 22 games. Obviously something's up there. And with the way so many of the wingers lower in the line-up (especially McMann) are finally performing well there's no reason he should be playing through injuries that are impacting him this much.