Wild at Blue Jackets preview

WILD (14-8-2) at BLUE JACKETS (14-8-2)
7 p.m. ET; FS-O, FS-N, FS-WI, NHL.TV

Tortorella will become the 18th coach in League history and the fifth active coach to reach that mark. He is 589-470-103 with 37 ties, including 143-95-25 in four seasons with Columbus.
Matt Dumba can set the Wild record for longest point streak by a defenseman. He is tied with Ryan Suter, who had nine points (one goal, eight assists) during a seven-game streak from Feb. 26-March 10, 2013. Dumba has 10 points (five goals, five assists) in his past seven games and leads NHL defensemen with 10 goals.

Players to watch

Wild forward Zach Parise has four goals and one assist) during a five-game point streak.
Blue Jackets center Pierre-Luc Dubois has 12 points (six goals, six assists) in his past eight games.

They said it

"Even though we only play them twice a year, it always seems like a hard-fought, emotional game." -- Wild goaltender Devan Dubnyk
"I don't think there's a lot of skin on today's athlete as you go about your business. When you have to coach them hard you have to be very careful nowadays. If he can't be handled being coached hard, you've got to find a different way to coach him because you're trying to get the best out of him." -- Blue Jackets coach John Tortorella

Wild projected lineup

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

Blue Jackets projected lineup

Artemi Panarin -- Pierre-Luc Dubois -- Cam Atkinson
Nick Foligno -- Boone Jenner -- Josh Anderson
Brandon Dubinsky -- Alex Wennberg -- Oliver Bjorkstrand
Lukas Sedlak -- Riley Nash -- Markus Hannikainen
Zach Werenski -- Seth Jones
Ryan Murray -- Markus Nutivaara
David Savard -- Scott Harrington
Sergei Bobrovsky
Joonas Korpisalo
Scratched: Dean Kukan
Injured:Anthony Duclair (undisclosed)

Status report

Pateryn returns after missing one game because of illness. He replaces Prosser. … Bjorkstrand replaces Duclair after being a healthy scratch for the past four games. Duclair is day-to-day.

Stat pack

Spurgeon has four assists in his past two games. Koivu has nine points (two goals, seven assists) in his past seven games. … The Blue Jackets are 3-0-1 in the past four home games, outscoring their opponents 19-10. … Atkinson can tie his NHL career-high nine-game point streak, which he set Dec. 5-23, 2016, and tied March 17-April 5, 2018. He has 14 points (nine goals, five assists) during his streak.