The Wild brought in an extra goaltender for practice on Wednesday in case Dubnyk wasn't feeling up to it, but he practiced in full then and again at morning skate Thursday.
"Upper body is a little sore but it's nothing restrictive as far as moving around," Dubnyk said. "It's more day-to-day activities, trying to lift the kids who are getting heavier by the day, it was a little tougher.
"But as far as playing, it's not going to affect anything."
Dubnyk has been one of the Wild's best players early in the season, posting an 8-4-2 record with a 2.34 goals-against average and a .927 save percentage in 14 starts.
Dubnyk has given up two goals or fewer in nine of those 14 starts, but one of the ones that didn't was Oct. 29 in Vancouver, a game in which Dubnyk surrendered four goals on 30 shots in a 5-2 loss.
Minnesota has won five of seven games since.
"We've played much better hockey since then," Dubnyk said. "If we can play the way we have been playing, hopefully we'll get a better result tonight than we did in Vancouver."
Here are the projected lineups:
WILD
Jason Zucker - Eric Staal - Mikael Granlund
Zach Parise - Mikko Koivu - Nino Niederreider
Jordan Greenway - Joel Eriksson Ek - Charlie Coyle
Marcus Foligno - Eric Fehr - JT Brown
Ryan Suter - Matt Dumba
Jonas Brodin - Jared Spurgeon
Nick Seeler - Greg Pateryn
Devan Dubnyk
Alex Stalock
CANUCKS
Antoine Roussel - Bo Horvat - Jake Virtanen
Nikolay Goldobin - Elias Pettersson - Loui Eriksson
Tim Schaller - Adam Gaudette - Brendan Leipsic
Darren Archibald - Markus Granlund - Tyler Motte
Ben Hutton - Erik Gudbranson
Derrick Pouliot - Christopher Tanev
Michael Del Zotto - Troy Stecher
Richard Bachman
Jacob Markstrom
Related:
Wild Warmup: Minnesota vs. Vancouver
