Projected Lineups for the Maple Leafs vs Wild – 11/3/24

The Toronto Maple Leafs 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.

MAPLE LEAFS (6-5-1) at WILD (7-1-2)

6 p.m. ET; FDSNNO, FDSNWI

Maple Leafs projected lineup

Matthew Knies — Auston Matthews — Mitch Marner
Max Pacioretty — John Tavares — William Nylander
Bobby McMann — Max Domi — Pontus Holmberg
Steven Lorentz — David Kampf — Ryan Reaves

Morgan Rielly — Oliver Ekman-Larsson
Jake McCabe — Chris Tanev
Simon Benoit — Conor Timmins

Anthony Stolarz
Joseph Woll

Scratched: Philippe Myers, Matt Benning, Nicholas Robertson

Injured: Calle Jarnkrok (lower body), Connor Dewar (upper body), Jani Hakanpaa (lower body), Dakota Mermis (upper body)

Status report

• Toronto is playing the second half of a back-to-back following a loss at the St. Louis Blues on Saturday.

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Wild projected lineup

Kirill Kaprizov — Marco Rossi — Mats Zuccarello
Marcus Johansson — Joel Eriksson Ek — Matt Boldy
Marcus Foligno — Frederick Gaudreau — Ryan Hartman
Jakub Lauko — Marat Khusnutdinov — Yakov Trenin

Jonas Brodin — Jared Spurgeon
Jake Middleton — Brock Faber
Declan Chisholm — Zach Bogosian

Filip Gustavsson
Marc-Andre Fleury

Scratched: Jon Merrill

Injured: None

Status report

• Gustavsson will start a second straight game.
• Johansson took a maintenance day on Saturday but is expected to play.
• Middleton missed practice for the birth of his child but is expected to play.

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