Wild at Oilers preview

WILD (6-3-2) at OILERS (6-3-1)
9 p.m. ET; SNW (JIP), SNOL, FS-N, FS-WI, NHL.TV

Goalie Cam Talbot will start for Edmonton, which is 6-1-1 since losing its first two games of the season. They won 5-3 at the Nashville Predators on Saturday and 2-1 in overtime at the Chicago Blackhawks on Sunday.
Alex Stalock will start in goal for the Wild, which had a five-game winning streak end with a 5-2 loss at the Vancouver Canucks on Monday. The Wild are playing the second of seven-straight games on the road.

Players to watch

Wild forward Mikael Granlund is on an eight-game point streak (five goals, five assists). He holds the Minnesota record for longest point streak at 12 games (five goals, 12 assists) from Jan. 12 to Feb. 4, 2017.
Oilers center Connor McDavid is on a four-game goal streak and has 17 points (eight goals, nine assists) in 10 games this season.

They said it

"I think we just need to have some better starts. We get behind and start chasing the game, and eventually, we're not going to be able to get that bounce or that goal that we need." -- Wild defenseman Jared Spurgeon.
"Our mentality is not going to change, we want to go out there, outwork every team and keep our checking tight. That's what won us the game in Chicago. That's going to be huge tonight and as we keep climbing to where we want to be." -- Oilers forward Ryan Nugent-Hopkins

Wild projected lineup

Jason Zucker -- Eric Staal -- Nino Niederreiter
Zach Parise -- Mikko Koivu -- Mikael Granlund
Jordan Greenway -- Charlie Coyle -- JT Brown
Marcus Foligno -- Eric Fehr -- Joel Eriksson Ek
Ryan Suter -- Mathew Dumba
Jonas Brodin -- Jared Spurgeon
Nick Seeler -- Greg Pateryn
Alex Stalock
Devan Dubnyk
Scratched: Matt Read, Nate Prosser
Injured:Matt Hendricks (leg)

Oilers projected lineup

Ryan Nugent-Hopkins -- Connor McDavid -- Kailer Yamamoto
Tobias Rieder -- Leon Draisaitl -- Alex Chiasson
Milan Lucic -- Ryan Strome -- Drake Caggiula
Jujhar Khaira -- Kyle Brodziak -- Zack Kassian
Oscar Klefbom -- Adam Larsson
Darnell Nurse -- Kris Russell
Jason Garrison - - Matt Benning
Cam Talbot
Mikko Koskinen
Scratched:Jesse Puljujarvi, Evan Bouchard, Cooper Marody
Injured: Ty Rattie (upper body)

Status report

Stalock will make his third start of the season in the second game of a back-to-back. … Puljujarvi will be a healthy scratch for his fourth straight game. … Bouchard will be a healthy scratch for a third straight game.

Stat pack

Staal needs two goals for 400 in the NHL. … Parise is four points away from 700 in the NHL. … Nugent-Hopkins has five points (one goal, four assists) in his past four games. … Draisaitl has five points (four goals, one assists) in his past four games.