WILD (6-2-2) at CANUCKS (6-6-0)
10 p.m. ET; SN, FS-N+, NHL.TV
The Game
The Minnesota Wild can extend their winning streak to six games when they begin a seven-game road trip against the Vancouver Canucks at Rogers Arena on Monday.
The Wild have outscored opponents 17-9 while winning five in a row since a 1-2-2 start. They haven’t won six straight since a 12-game run from Dec. 4-29, 2016.
Goaltender Devan Dubnyk makes his third consecutive start for Minnesota. He is 4-0-0 with a 1.25 goals-against average and .959 save percentage during the winning streak.
The Canucks have lost two straight games for the first time this season after top-pair defensemen Alexander Edler (knee) and Christopher Tanev (hip) were injured.
Players to watch
Wild forward Mikael Granlund has nine points (five goals, four assists) in a seven-game point streak.
Canucks center Elias Pettersson did not have a point his first game back from injury Saturday but leads NHL rookies with eight points (five goals, three assists) in six games.
They said it
“It’s not a good formula to keep a win streak going, that’s for sure. We’re playing with fire.” — Wild coach Bruce Boudreau on giving up the first goal in seven of eight games. Minnesota is an NHL-best 5-1-1 when the opponent scores first.
“We’re replacing 25 minutes out of two guys and you are asking someone else not only to play those minutes but to play against the best players in the world.” –– Canucks coach Travis Green on playing without Edler and Tanev
Wild projected lineup
Jason Zucker — Eric Staal — Nino Niederreiter
Zach Parise — Mikko Koivu — Mikael Granlund
Jordan Greenway — Charlie Coyle — Matt Read
Marcus Foligno — Eric Fehr — Joel Eriksson Ek
Ryan Suter — Matt Dumba
Jonas Brodin — Jared Spurgeon
Nick Seeler — Greg Pateryn
Devan Dubnyk
Alex Stalock
Scratched: Nate Prosser, J.T. Brown
Injured: Matt Hendricks (lower body)
Canucks projected lineup
Nikolay Goldobin — Elias Pettersson — Brock Boeser
Loui Eriksson — Bo Horvat — Adam Gaudette
Antoine Roussel — Brandon Sutter — Jake Virtanen
Tim Schaller — Markus Granlund — Tyler Motte
Derrick Pouliot — Troy Stecher
Ben Hutton — Erik Gudbranson
Michael Del Zotto — Alex Biega
Jacob Markstrom
Scratched: Brendan Leipsic, Guillaume Brisebois
Injured: Christopher Tanev (hip), Sven Baertschi (concussion), Alexander Edler (knee), Jay Beagle (arm), Anders Nilsson (finger)
Status report
Hendricks is not travelling on the first two games of the trip but could rejoin the Wild before they play the St. Louis Blues on Saturday. … Minnesota called up Greenway after he played two games with Iowa of the American Hockey League during the weekend. … Tanev could return against the Chicago Blackhawks on Wednesday.
Stat pack
Parise is four points from 700 in the NHL. … Staal is two goals from 400 in the NHL. … Horvat doesn’t have a point in his past two games after getting five points (four goals, one assist) in a four-game point streak.
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