The Minnesota Wild is in action tonight for Game 1 of its Round One matchup with the Vegas Golden Knights for a 9:00 P.M Central start. 

Minnesota played Vegas three times during the regular season and lost all three times.  They were outscored 17-5 in those three games as well. The Wild are 2-8-3 in their last 13 games vs the Golden Knights. 

For the first time in a long time, the Wild are finally healthy. And to be healthy come playoff time is a huge plus for this team that hasn’t been healthy for playoffs the last few years. 

Minnesota has not won a playoff series in ten years but have made the playoffs 11 times in its last 13 season. The Wild missed the playoffs last year. 

Zeev Buium will make his NHL debut tonight for Minnesota. He will become the first player in Wild history to make his debut in the playoffs and could become the second ever player to score his first NHL goal in the playoffs. 

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

Wild Projected Lines

Kirill Kaprizov – Joel Eriksson Ek – Matt Boldy

Marcus Johansson – Freddy Gaudreau – Mats Zuccarello

Marcus Foligno – Marco Rossi – Gustav Nyquist

Yakov Trenin – Ryan Hartman – Justin Brazeau

Defense:

Jonas Brodin – Brock Faber

Jake Middleton – Jared Spurgeon

Zeev Buium – Zach Bogosian

Starting Goaltender: Filip Gustavsson

Scratched: Declan Chisholm, Devin Shore, Jon Merrill, Jesper Wallstedt, Vinnie Hinostroza. 

Injured: None

Golden Knights Projected Lines

Ivan Barbashev — Jack Eichel — Mark Stone

Brandon Saad –Tomas Hertl — Pavel Dorofeyev

Victor Olofsson — William Karlsson — Reilly Smith

Brett Howden — Nicolas Roy — Keegan Kolesar

Defense:

Nicolas Hague — Alex Pietrangelo

Brayden McNabb – Shea Theodore

Noah Hanifin — Zach Whitecloud

Starting Goaltender: Adin Hill

Scratched: Alexander Holtz, Ben Hutton, Kaedan Korczak, Tanner Pearson, Akira Schmid, Cole Schwindt.

Injured: None

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