Canucks at Wild preview

CANUCKS (17-21-6) at WILD (24-17-4)
8 p.m. ET; SN, FS-N, NHL.TV

Sutter missed 21 games with a groin injury and has not played since a 3-2 loss at the New Jersey Devils on Nov. 24.
Goalie Devan Dubnyk will start for the Wild after making 32 saves in a 4-1 win against the Winnipeg Jets on Saturday. He is 5-1-0 with 13 goals allowed in his previous six starts and has allowed two goals or fewer in five of six starts.
The Wild have a point in six straight home games (5-0-1). They are 4-1-1 in their past five games and 5-2-1 in their previous eight.
Vancouver is 1-4-1 in its past six games and 3-11-2 in its past 16.

Players to watch

Canucks forward Brock Boeser has 10 points (five goals, five assists) in his past 10 games but one goal in his past six.
Wild forward Mikael Granlund has five points (two goals, three assists) in a three-game point streak and 13 points (six goals, seven assists) in his past nine games.

They said it

"Reliability, accountability, knowing what you're going to get in a night to night basis. Just the obvious things: his penalty killing, his faceoffs, being able to put him out there against any line in the League, that's a nice comfort for your team." -- Canucks coach Travis Green on Brandon Sutter's return
"Hopefully we come out and we realize the last two games in this building [Vancouver's] beaten us 1-0 and 2-1. We haven't respected them as much as we should have. When they get their lineup together, they're pretty good. They're starting to get healthy again, so I expect them to be very good tonight." -- Wild coach Bruce Boudreau

Canucks projected lineup

Daniel Sedin -- Henrik Sedin -- Loui Eriksson
Thomas Vanek -- Sam Gagner -- Brock Boeser
Sven Baertschi -- Brandon Sutter -- Markus Granlund
Brendan Gaunce -- Nic Dowd -- Jake Virtanen
Ben Hutton -- Chris Tanev
Alexander Edler -- Troy Stecher
Michael Del Zotto -- Erik Gudbranson
Jacob Markstrom
Anders Nilsson
Scratched:Derrick Pouliot, Michael Chaput, Alex Biega
Injured:Bo Horvat (broken ankle)

Wild projected lineup

Jason Zucker -- Mikko Koivu -- Mikael Granlund
Tyler Ennis -- Eric Staal -- Zach Parise
Joel Eriksson Ek -- Charlie Coyle -- Chris Stewart
Marcus Foligno -- Matt Cullen -- Daniel Winnik
Ryan Suter -- Jared Spurgeon
Jonas Brodin -- Mathew Dumba
Gustav Olofsson -- Nate Prosser
Devan Dubnyk
Alex Stalock
Scratched:Mike Reilly
Injured:Nino Niederreiter (lower body)

Status report

The Canucks sent forward Nikolay Goldobin to Utica of the American Hockey League on Saturday. … Minnesota and Vancouver each have six days off until their next games.

Stat pack

Vanek has 13 points (five goals, eight assists) in his past 10 games. … Suter has five points (goal, four assists) during a four-game point streak.