Jets at Wild preview

JETS (26-12-7) at WILD (23-17-4)
7 p.m. ET; SN1, CITY, FS-N, NHL.TV

Goaltender Steve Mason did not dress Friday because of an illness but is expected to start for the Jets, who are playing the second game of a back-to-back set, and are 6-1-1 in their previous eight games; they lost to the Chicago Blackhawks 2-1 on Friday.
Devan Dubynk is expected to start for Minnesota, which has earned a point in five straight games at home (4-0-1) and is 5-2-1 in their past eight games.

Players to watch

Jets forward Patrik Laine has eight points (two goals, six assists) in his past seven games. He has a goal in two straight games after being held scoreless in the previous seven and leads Winnipeg with 20 goals.
Mikael Granlund has 11 points (five goals, six assists) in the past eight games and leads Wild forwards with 19:19 of ice time per game.

They said it

"Real desperation game for them as well, back-to-back for us, so a bit of a challenge. … I like the way we played over the past month. We're not winning every game so we'll move on to the next one." -- Jets coach Paul Maurice
"We need to make sure we can get all the points we can, while we can…so we don't have regrets." -- Wild forward Charlie Coyle

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Jets projected lineup

Kyle Connor -- Blake Wheeler -- Patrik Laine
Mathieu Perreault -- Bryan Little -- Nikolaj Ehlers
Shawn Matthias -- Andrew Copp -- Joel Armia
Jack Roslovic
-- Matt Hendricks -- Marko Dano
Josh Morrissey -- Jacob Trouba
Dmitry Kulikov -- Tyler Myers
Toby Enstrom -- Dustin Byfuglien
Steve Mason
Connor Hellebuyck
Scratched: Ben Chiarot, Brendan Lemieux, Michael Hutchinson
Injured: Adam Lowry (upper body), Mark Scheifele (upper body), Brandon Tanev (lower body)

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)

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Status report

The Jets recalled Hutchinson from Manitoba of the American Hockey League on Friday.

Stat pack

Wheeler has 11 points (five goals, six assists) in his past eight games. ... Connor has nine points (five goals, four assists) in his past nine games. …Koivu has five points (one goal, four assists) in his past four games. ... Spurgeon has five points (one goal, four assists) in his past five games. Suter has four points (one goal, three assists) during a three-game point streak. ... Winnipeg is 3-0-0 against Minnesota this season.