Preview: Panthers at Wild

PANTHERS (13-12-4) at WILD (15-8-4)
8 p.m. ET; FS-N, FS-WI, FS-FL, NHL.TV

Panthers team scope

Florida Panthers forward Jonathan Marchessault, who has missed five games with a lower-body injury, will be a game-time decision. "He'll have to warm up," Panthers coach Tom Rowe said. "He looked better today for sure, so we'll see what happens." Marchessault has 19 points (10 goals, nine assists) in 25 games this season. "I'm going to take the decision [on returning]," he said. "But I don't want to get back out there if I can't be 100 percent, because I'm not a guy who can go 60 or 70 percent. I want to be able to go hard and I'll see how I feel, but so far it's good." With 1,883 career points, Jaromir Jagr is four away from tying Mark Messier (1,887) for second place on the NHL all-time list. Jagr has 15 points (six goals, nine assists) in 29 games this season. Florida snapped a four-game (0-2-2) losing streak with a 4-2 win against the Vancouver Canucks on Saturday. The Panthers are 2-3-3 in their past eight games, and 5-7-4 on the road this season. Goaltender James Reimer is expected to start.

Wild team scope

The Minnesota Wild are riding a season-high four-game win streak after a 3-1 victory against the St. Louis Blues on Sunday. The Wild are 9-3-0 at home this season and are allowing a League-low 2.00 goals against per game. Goaltender Devan Dubnyk will start. He is 4-0-0 with six goals allowed in his past four games. He leads the NHL with four shutouts, a .946 save percentage and 1.63 goals against average. Defenseman Christian Folin will return to the lineup after missing seven games with a knee injury. "It's a part of hockey," he said. "It's obviously tough, but you get back out there and get back to playing well." Having Folin's 6-foot-4 size will be helpful, according to Minnesota coach Bruce Boudreau. "He's a bigger-bodied guy and plays a little more physical than most guys we have on the back end," Boudreau said. "And we were doing pretty good when he was in the lineup, so he's coming back in."

Panthers projected lineup

Seth Griffith- Aleksander Barkov - Jaromir Jagr
Jussi Jokinen - Vincent Trocheck - Reilly Smith
Jonathan Marchessault - Nick Bjugstad - Colton Sceviour
Kyle Rau - Derek MacKenzie - Paul Thompson
Keith Yandle - Jason Demers
Mark Pysyk- Aaron Ekblad
Mike Matheson - Dylan McIlrath
James Reimer
Roberto Luongo
Scratched:Jakub Kindl, Shawn Thornton, Denis Malgin
Injured:Jonathan Huberdeau (lower leg), Alexander Petrovic (ankle)

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Wild projected lineup

Zach Parise - Eric Staal - Jason Pominville
Jason Zucker - Mikko Koivu - Mikael Granlund
Nino Niederreiter - Erik Haula - Charlie Coyle
Chris Stewart - Tyler Graovac - Kurtis Gabriel
Ryan Suter - Jared Spurgeon
Jonas Brodin - Mathew Dumba
Marco Scandella - Christian Folin
Devan Dubnyk
Darcy Kuemper
Scratched:Teemu Pulkkinen, Nate Prosser
Injured:Zac Dalpe (knee), Victor Bartley (arm)

Status Update

Malgin remains day to day. … Dalpe is skating but has not been cleared to play after missing 18 games.

Who's Hot

Barkov has three goals and two assists in a four-game point streak. He has four goals and 12 points in the past 12 games. … Granlund has a goal and two assists in a three-game point streak.