LIGHTNING (7-3-0) at WILD (6-1-2)
8 p.m. ET; FDSNWI, FDSNNO, FDSNSUN
Lightning projected lineup
Jake Guentzel -- Brayden Point -- Nikita Kucherov
Brandon Hagel -- Anthony Cirelli -- Conor Geekie
Michael Eyssimont -- Nick Paul -- Mitchell Chaffee
Zemgus Girgensons -- Luke Glendening -- Cam Atkinson
Victor Hedman -- J.J. Moser
Ryan McDonagh -- Erik Cernak
Emil Lilleberg -- Nick Perbix
Andrei Vasilevskiy
Jonas Johansson
Scratched: Darren Raddysh
Injured: None
Wild projected lineup
Kirill Kaprizov -- Marco Rossi -- Mats Zuccarello
Marcus Johansson -- Joel Eriksson Ek -- Matt Boldy
Marcus Foligno -- Frederick Gaudreau -- Yakov Trenin
Jakub Lauko -- Marat Khusnutdinov -- Ryan Hartman
Jonas Brodin -- Jared Spurgeon
Jake Middleton -- Brock Faber
Declan Chisholm -- Zach Bogosian
Filip Gustavsson
Marc-Andre Fleury
Scratched: Jon Merrill
Injured: None
Status report
Cernak will play after leaving during the second period of a 5-2 win at the Colorado Avalanche on Wednesday after taking a hit to the head from Avalanche forward Matt Stienburg. Stienburg received a two-game suspension from the NHL Department of Player Safety for the hit. ... Hartman will return after missing five games because of an upper-body injury. … The Wild reassigned forwards Liam Ohgren and Luke Toporowski to Iowa of the American Hockey League on Thursday.
