From the Rink: Dubnyk eager to get back at it against Blue Jackets

COLUMBUS, Ohio -- Devan Dubnyk is expected to get the start in goal when the Wild faces the Columbus Blue Jackets at Nationwide Arena on Thursday.
Dubnyk will be looking for a bit of retribution after a tough third period on Tuesday in a 4-3 loss to the Arizona Coyotes, when the Wild allowed three goals in the span of 5 1/2 minutes after taking a 3-1 lead to the third period.
For a competitor like Dubnyk, getting back between the posts is one of the best things after a tough stretch, especially against a quality opponent like the Blue Jackets, who have three players with at least 20 points this season.

"You talk about it when you're winning, but it's the same thing if you have a game you want to forget about," Dubnyk said. "The previous game, the previous two, three, four, whatever it is, if you've won five in a row, have nothing to do with the next one. And that works the same way when you're trying to forget one."

The Wild did a tremendous job of limiting the Coyotes' chances; Arizona finished with just 14 shots on goal in the game, including seven through two periods.
But the visitors made a push late in the game and capitalized three times to win in rebound fashion.
The game Tuesday was a strange ending to an unusual stretch for Dubnyk, who was pulled in an eventual win against Ottawa last Tuesday, then missed a start because of illness. The start against the Coyotes was his first game back from that.
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Seeing just seven shots on goal through 40 minutes that first game was also a challenge. For goaltenders, sometimes quantity isn't a bad thing, especially coming off a few off days.
"It just depends on what the workload is," Dubnyk said. "If you have a game with 10 scoring chances and 15 shots, it's going to be a little more tricky than a game with 10 scoring chances and 35 shots. It's just the way it is.
"But one thing about the goaltending position is it's reactive; you can't go out and make 50 saves if you don't get 50 shots. If you get 10 shots, you try and make 10 saves and that's all you can do."
The Wild will have defenseman Greg Pateryn back in the lineup on Thursday after he missed Tuesday's game because of illness.
Pateryn's absence on the blue line was the first time this season one of Minnesota's top-six blueliners missed a game for any reason in what has been a remarkable run of consistency.
"Any time you have guys who play together more and more, you get more chemistry," Pateryn said. "You just get more out of it. It's good, but it also shows our depth, which I think goes a long way."
Here are the projected lineups:
WILD
Jason Zucker - Eric Staal - Mikael Granlund
Zach Parise - Mikko Koivu - Charlie Coyle
Jordan Greenway - Joel Eriksson Ek - Marcus Foligno
Nino Niederreiter - Eric Fehr - JT Brown
Ryan Suter - Jared Spurgeon
Jonas Brodin - Matt Dumba
Nick Seeler - Greg Pateryn
Devan Dubnyk
Alex Stalock
BLUE JACKETS
Artemi Panarin - Pierre-Luc Dubois - Cam Atkinson
Nick Foligno - Boone Jenner - Josh Anderson
Brandon Dubinsky - Alexander Wennberg - Anthony Duclair
Lukas Sedlak - Riley Nash - Markus Hannikainen
Zach Werenski - Seth Jones
Ryan Murray - Markus Nutivaara
Scott Harrington - David Savard
Sergei Bobrovsky
Joonas Korpisalo
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