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BLUE JACKETS (28-16-3) at WILD (23-21-3)
9 p.m. ET; FS-N, FS-O, NHL.TV

The 25-year-old was acquired by Minnesota for forward Nino Niederreiter in a trade with the Carolina Hurricanes on Thursday. He's expected to center the third line between Zach Parise and Pontus Aberg.
Defenseman
Louie Belpedio
will make his season debut with the Wild, who are 1-3-0 in their past four games.
The Blue Jackets had a four-game winning streak end on Friday with a 4-1 home loss to the Montreal Canadiens.

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Players to watch

Blue Jackets forward Artemi Panarin has seven points (five goals, two assists) in his past five games.
Parise has 12 points (four goals, eight assists) in his past 12 games.

They said it

"Get ready to play another game. I didn't say (they need to get up for this game), I shouldn't have to say that. I won't say that. We just need to be ready to play the game." - Blue Jackets coach John Tortorella on playing the second of back-to-back games
"He's a good two-way player, smart hockey player, good distributor, sneaky shot. He's a guy that's looking for a new start as well. He's had a rough last two years with injuries and surgeries at the beginning of last season and end of last season and beginning of this season. So he's healthy now and hopefully he can get back to the player he was three years ago." - Wild coach Bruce Boudreau on the addition of Victor Rask

Blue Jackets projected lineup
Wild projected lineup
Status report

Belpedio was recalled from Iowa of the American Hockey League on Friday.

Stat pack

Atkinson has six points (three goals, three assists) in his past five games. Dubois has five points (one goal, four assists) in his past five games. … Zucker has four points (three goals, one assist) in his past five games. Koivu is one goal away from 200 in his NHL career.