Projected Lineups for the Wild vs Golden Knights – 4/20/25

The Minnesota Wild take on the Vegas Golden Knights for Game 1 of their first round matchup at T-Mobile Arena this evening. Here are the projected/expected lineups sourced from NHL.com staff writers, independent correspondents, and others.

WILD (WC1) at GOLDEN KNIGHTS (P1)

Western Conference First Round, Game 1

10 p.m. ET; FDSNNO, SCRIPPS, ESPN, SN360, SN, TVAS

Wild projected lineup

Kirill Kaprizov — Joel Eriksson Ek — Matt Boldy
Marcus Johansson — Frederick Gaudreau — Mats Zuccarello
Marcus Foligno — Marco Rossi — Gustav Nyquist
Yakov Trenin — Ryan Hartman — Justin Brazeau

Jonas Brodin — Brock Faber
Jacob Middleton — Jared Spurgeon
Zeev Buium — Zach Bogosian

Filip Gustavsson
Marc-Andre Fleury

Scratched: Jon Merrill, Declan Chisholm, Vincent Hinostroz, Devon Shore, Jesper Wallstedt

Injured: None

Status report

Buium will make his NHL debut; he was the No. 12 pick in the 2024 NHL Draft and signed on April 13 following his collegiate season at the University of Denver. … Shore, a forward, was recalled from Iowa of the American Hockey League on Sunday.

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Golden Knights projected lineup

Ivan Barbashev — Jack Eichel — Mark Stone
Brandon Saad –Tomas Hertl — Pavel Dorofeyev
Victor Olofsson — William Karlsson — Reilly Smith
Brett Howden — Nicolas Roy — Keegan Kolesar

Nicolas Hague — Alex Pietrangelo
Brayden McNabb – Shea Theodore
Noah Hanifin — Zach Whitecloud

Adin Hill
Ilya Samsonov

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

Injured: None

Status report

The Golden Knights held an optional morning skate.

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