Projected Lineups for the Devils vs Wild – 3/29/25

The New Jersey Devils take on the Minnesota Wild at the Xcel Energy Center tonight. Here are the projected/expected lineups sourced from NHL.com staff writers, independent correspondents, and others.

DEVILS (38-29-7) at WILD (41-27-5)

6 p.m. ET; FDSNWIX, FDSNNO, MSGSN

Devils projected lineup

Ondrej Palat — Nico Hischier — Timo Meier
Erik Haula — Dawson Mercer — Jesper Bratt
Paul Cotter — Justin Dowling — Stefan Noesen
Tomas Tatar — Curtis Lazar — Nathan Bastian

Luke Hughes — Brett Pesce
Brian Dumoulin — Jonathan Kovacevic
Brenden Dillon — Simon Nemec

Jacob Markstrom
Jake Allen

Scratched: Daniel Sprong, Dennis Cholowski, Kurtis MacDermid, Nolan Foote

Injured: Dougie Hamilton (lower body), Cody Glass (undisclosed)

Status report

Neither team will hold a morning skate; the Devils will play the second a back-to-back after a 4-0 loss at the Winnipeg Jets on Friday. Hughes did not play because of a lower-body injury and will be reevaluated before the game.

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Wild projected lineup

Mats Zuccarello — Marco Rossi — Matt Boldy
Marcus Johansson — Frederick Gaudreau — Gustav Nyquist
Marcus Foligno — Ryan Hartman — Vinnie Hinostroza
Yakov Trenin — Devin Shore — Justin Brazeau

Jake Middleton — Brock Faber
Jonas Brodin — Jared Spurgeon
Jon Merrill — Zach Bogosian

Marc-Andre Fleury
Filip Gustavsson

Scratched: Cameron Crotty, Brendan Gaunce

Injured: Kirill Kaprizov (lower body), Joel Eriksson Ek (lower body), Declan Chisholm (lower body)

Status report

Fleury is expected to start for the second time in three games.

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