PHILADELPHIA -- One day after his team lost its second straight game and fifth in its past eight, Minnesota Wild coach Mike Yeo wasn't very revealing about what his lineup would look like Monday against the Philadelphia Flyers (7:30 p.m. ET, NBCSN, TSN2).

"There will be some changes," Yeo said. "It's going to be a surprise. I love surprises."

There wasn’t much of a surprise in their results Sunday against the New York Rangers, a 4-1 loss. It marked the seventh time in the past 14 games the Wild had scored one goal or fewer.

Though Yeo wasn't talking much about his lineup, one thing he seemed against doing was splitting his top two forward pairings, Mikko Koivu and Zach Parise and Mikael Granlund and Jason Pominville.

"Mikko is a skilled player and he needs skilled players with him," Yeo said. "You look around the League, we're not the only team to do that. First-line centermen generally are going to play with first-line wingers. Skilled players need to play with skilled players, that's what it comes down to."

WASHINGTON -- During parts of four seasons with the Washington Capitals, center Mathieu Perreaultserved as a spark plug capable of stepping into the lineup and providing instant energy.

Yet Perreault, minus a 64-game, 16-goal season in 2011-12, never could carve a consistent spot in the Capitals' lineup, resuming his position as the first option off the bench in case of injury or when the roster needed a shakeup.

As Washington's training camp wound down this season, Perreault seemingly was on the outside looking in once again as coach Adam Oates elected to experiment at the third-line center position that Perreault presumably would have assumed.

"I felt like even when I had those chances I was able to play well, but when guys were coming back from injuries it also seemed like [the Capitals] would put me aside again and I'd have to wait for someone to get hurt to have a chance," Perreault, traded to the Anaheim Ducks in late September, said following the Ducks' morning skate Monday. "And then I would actually do good, and then when guys would be back I would get put on the sideline again."

At one point, the Detroit Red Wings had eight players on injured reserve. That number was reduced to seven over the weekend with defenseman Danny DeKeyser's return from a shoulder injury. By Monday morning the list of wounded players was trimmed to six when center Gustav Nyquist was inserted into the lineup to play against the New York Islanders after he missed three games with a groin issue.

"I've had a few good skates here over the last few days to try and get back to game pace," Nyquist said. "Everything feels good.

"It's different being on a bike or in the weight room; you could kind of feel it at first because I was off the ice for four days. You'd lose your breath pretty quick. But again, I've had a few good skates here. I feel good right now. It's going to be fun to play [Monday]."

The revolving door that is the Columbus Blue Jackets' lineup this season continues Monday when they visit the Carolina Hurricanes at PNC Arena.

Forwards Derek MacKenzie and Jack Skille return and will play on the third line with Blake Comeau. MacKenzie missed both games of the Blue Jackets' home-and-home with the Philadelphia Flyers due to a lower-body injury. Skille scored a goal in his past game Thursday in Philadelphia but also took a shot off his hand in that game and missed the rematch Saturday, a 6-3 win in Columbus.

Though the Blue Jackets grabbed two points out of that game, they also lost two key players. Marian Gaboriksustained a broken collarbone in the first period of his return from a knee sprain and is out 6-8 weeks. Matt Calvert, who recently had a stretch of goals in three straight games, sustained a sprained AC joint in his shoulder and is expected to miss 2-3 weeks.

Detroit Red Wings forward Stephen Weiss has undergone successful surgery to repair a sports hernia, the team announced Monday, and is expected to return after the Olympic break.

Weiss, who last played Dec. 10, has two goals and four points in 26 games this season, his first with the Red Wings.

"The doctors are calling it a core muscle injury," general manager Ken Holland said. "The doctor said 6-8 weeks, but with the Olympic break we're shooting for him to play right after the Olympics.

"I guess he had a fairly significant tear but surgery went well. We had other players in the past here have that same surgery [Kris Draper, Tomas Holmstrom]. They seemed to come back in good shape."

Nashville Predators general manager David Poile announced Sunday that the club has loaned forward Filip Forsberg to the Swedish National Team for the 2014 World Junior Championships, taking place Dec. 26-Jan. 5 in Malmo, Sweden.

Forsberg, 19, has five points (one goal, four assists) in 12 games with Nashville, and eight points (three goals, five assists) in seven games with the Milwaukee Admirals of the American Hockey League this season.

At 10:09 of the first period in the Jets/Canucks game, video review supported the referee's call on the ice that Brad Richardson deflected the puck into the net with his stick below the level of the crossbar. According to Rule 60.5 "The determining factor is where the puck makes contact with the stick. If the puck makes contact with the stick below the level of the crossbar and enters the goal, this goal shall be allowed." Good goal Vancouver.

NEW YORK -- Minnesota Wild center Mikael Granlund will return to the lineup Sunday night against the New York Rangers after missing 11 games with a head injury. The hope is that the 21-year-old can help revitalize a Minnesota offense that has gone ice cold, scoring two or fewer goals in 11 of the past 13 games.

"I want to see him go out and play with confidence and bring what he can bring," Wild coach Mike Yeo said. "Obviously we'll be realistic with our expectations, but there is no better way of getting back in there except throwing him right in the fire."

Granlund was hurt on his first shift against the Phoenix Coyotes on Nov. 27, his first game back after missing two games due to another head injury. Before his struggles with injuries, he had found chemistry centering the Wild's second line between Jason Pominville and Nino Niederreiter.

United States National Junior Team general manager Jim Johannson on Sunday reduced the select camp roster by two players with the release of forward Henrik Samuelsson and defenseman Brett Pesce.

Johannson will need to cut one more player to reach the maximum of 23 players eligible to participate for the defending gold medalist at the 2014 IIHF World Junior Championship in Malmo, Sweden.

It was also announced Sunday that forward Riley Barber (Miami University; Washington Capitals) would serve as the team's captain. Forward Andrew Copp (University of Michigan; Winnipeg Jets) and defenseman Matt Grzelcyk (Boston University; Boston Bruins) will be the country's alternate captains.