Wild at Flyers preview

WILD (22-19-3) at FLYERS (16-23-6)
7 p.m. ET; NBCSP, FS-N, FS-WI, NHL.TV

Koivu, selected by the Wild with the No. 6 pick of the 2001 NHL Draft, has 199 goals in 964 games for Minnesota. He would join Marian Gaborik, who scored 219 goals in 502 games with Minnesota.
Philadelphia, which is 30th in the NHL on the power play (12.8 percent), used five forwards on its top unit at the morning skate: Jakub Voracek at the point, James van Riemsdyk and Wayne Simmonds at the net and Sean Couturier and Claude Giroux on the wings.

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Players to watch

Wild forward Zach Parise has scored 20 goals in 45 games against the Flyers, tied for his most against any NHL team (20 goals in 50 games against the New York Islanders).
Flyers forward Sean Couturier has five points (one goal, four assists) during a three-game point streak.

They said it

"I just think you have expectations that you should be winning more. For us it's frustrating because we haven't been producing on offense. It's been an absolute grind to get a goal for us lately and that just makes things that much harder." -- Wild forward Zach Parise
"I think a good power play, it doesn't matter how many opportunities you get. If you can get one (power-play goal) per game then all of a sudden a two-goal team average you're a three-goal team on average. When you don't get that goal, it looks like your offense is really struggling. We've had our fair share of missed opportunities but at some point, we do have to score on the power play." -- Flyers coach Scott Gordon

Wild projected lineup

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

Flyers projected lineup

James van Riemsdyk -- Claude Giroux -- Travis Konecny
Oskar Lindblom -- Sean Couturier -- Jakub Voracek
Scott Laughton -- Nolan Patrick -- Wayne Simmonds
Michael Raffl --
Phil Varone
-- Dale Weise
Ivan Provorov -- Travis Sanheim
Shayne Gostisbehere -- Andrew MacDonald
Robert Hagg -- Radko Gudas
Carter Hart
Mike McKenna
Scratched:Jori Lehtera, Christian Folin
Injured:Corban Knight (collarbone), Brian Elliott (lower body), Anthony Stolarz (lower body), Michal Neuvirth (lower body)

Status report

Hendricks will replace Brown in the lineup. ... MacDonald will return after missing six games with a lower-body injury. He replaces Folin.

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Stat pack

The Wild are 5-3-0 in their past eight games after a five-game losing streak (0-4-1). They've scored two goals or fewer in nine of their past 13 games. ... Konecny is one point from 100 in the NHL.