Wild at Blackhawks preview

WILD (12-6-2) at BLACKHAWKS (7-8-5)
6 p.m. ET; NHLN, WGN, FS-WI, FS-N+, NHL.TV

The Wild, 4-0-0 in the second of back-to-backs, lost 3-2 to the Buffalo Sabres at Xcel Energy Center on Saturday. Minnesota is 11-3-0 in its past 14 games and has allowed two goals or fewer in four of its past five games.
The Blackhawks, who lost 2-1 in a shootout to the Los Angeles Kings on Friday, will try for their second win under new coach Jeremy Colliton. They are 1-2-2 since he replaced Joel Quenneville on Nov. 6.
Chicago is 1-6-3 in its past 10 games and has allowed at least four goals in five of its past eight games.

Players to watch

Goaltender Alex Stalock is scheduled to start for the Wild. He's won his past three starts and has a 2.61 goals-against average and a .910 save percentage since Oct. 20. All three of the wins have come in the second of back-to-back games
Blackhawks forward Patrick Kane, who turns 30 on Sunday, has 15 points (seven goals, eight assists) in his past 13 games.

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They said it

"What happened tonight, just put it in the past and the easiest way to do that is getting our game going and come out of Chicago with two points." -- Wild defenseman Matt Dumba after the loss to the Sabres
"We're all competitors in here, we all want to win right now. So that's where we're at. I don't think anyone's thinking about rebuilding or trying to build these young guys up. I think we're just focused on a day-to-day basis, trying to get better, trying to win the next game." -- Blackhawks forward Patrick Kane

Wild projected lineup

Jason Zucker -- Eric Staal -- Mikael Granlund
Zach Parise -- Mikko Koivu -- Nino Niederreiter
Marcus Foligno -- Jordan Greenway -- Charlie Coyle
Joel Eriksson Ek -- Eric Fehr -- JT Brown
Ryan Suter -- Matt Dumba
Jonas Brodin -- Jared Spurgeon
Nick Seeler -- Greg Pateryn
Alex Stalock
Devan Dubnyk
Scratched:Nate Prosser, Matt Hendricks
Injured:None

Blackhawks projected lineup

Brandon Saad -- Jonathan Toews -- Patrick Kane
Alex DeBrincat -- Artem Anisimov -- Nick Schmaltz
Alexandre Fortin -- David Kampf -- Dominik Kahun
Andreas Martinsen -- Marcus Kruger -- John Hayden
Duncan Keith -- Brent Seabrook
Erik Gustafsson -- Henri Jokiharju
Gustav Forsling -- Jan Rutta
Corey Crawford
Cam Ward
Scratched:Luke Johnson, Chris Kunitz, Brandon Manning
Injured:Connor Murphy (back), Brandon Davidson (right leg)

Status report

Stalock is expected to start after Dubnyk played against the Sabres.

Stat pack

Granlund has six points (four goals, two assists) in his past five games. He needs one assist for 200 in NHL career. The Wild are 6-4-0 in 10 road games this season. ... Kane's 324 goals, 527 assists, 851 points and 841 games played all rank first among players taken in the 2007 NHL Draft.