Wild at Canucks preview

WILD (14-10-2) at CANUCKS (11-15-3)
10 p.m. ET; SNP, FS-N, FS-WI, NHL.TV

Leivo, 25, was acquired from the Toronto Maple Leafs in a trade for Michael Carcone on Monday. Leivo had six points (four goals, two assists) in 27 games with Toronto.
Beagle has missed 24 games with a broken forearm from blocking a shot Oct. 13.
Goalie Anders Nilsson makes his second straight start for the Canucks, who have one win in their past 12 games (1-9-2).
Minnesota has lost three in a row and five of the past seven after going 11-3-0 in its previous 14 games.
Wild goalie Devan Dubnyk, who has given up 15 goals in his past five games, will start his fourth straight game.

Players to watch

Wild defenseman Matt Dumba has 10 points (five goals, five assists) in his past nine games and leads NHL defensemen with 10 goals this season.
Canucks center Bo Horvat has three points (one goal, two assists) in his past two games and leads the team with 25 points (12 goals, 13 assists).

They said it

"For sure we have been able to win on the road, but it doesn't really matter tonight. We're in a spot we don't want to be and we want to get out of it," -- Wild center Mikko Koivu on Minnesota going 5-2-0 on their last extended road trip, which started against the Canucks on Oct. 29
"I was playing fourth line in Toronto, not a lot minutes, so just to be able to get out on the ice a lot more and might be playing with some good players here, I'm excited." -- new Canucks forward Josh Leivo

Wild projected lineup

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

Canucks projected lineup

Josh Leivo -- Bo Horvat -- Loui Eriksson
Markus Granlund -- Elias Pettersson -- Brock Boeser
Antoine Roussel -- Jay Beagle -- Jake Virtanen
Tim Schaller -- Adam Gaudette -- Tyler Motte
Alexander Edler -- Alex Biega
Ben Hutton -- Troy Stecher
Michael Del Zotto -- Chris Tanev
Anders Nilsson
Jacob Markstrom
Scratched: Derrick Pouliot, Nikolay Goldobin
Injured: Erik Gudbranson (neck), Brandon Sutter (shoulder), Sven Baertschi (concussion)

Status report

Hendricks, a healthy scratch the past six games, replaces Brown. … Goldobin, who is third in Canucks scoring with 16 points (four goals, 12 assists), is a healthy scratch. "There's areas of his game he's working on, a lot of video, areas he needs improvement in," coach Travis Green said. ... Gudbranson, who has missed three games, is a game-time decision and would likely replace Stecher. ... Sam Gagner was sent down to Toronto of the American Hockey League.

Stat pack

Parise has six points (five goals, one assist) in his past seven games. … Staal has five points (four goals, one assist) in his past five games. … Vancouver has scored two goals of fewer in seven of their past 11 games.