By Thomas Williams -
The regular season isn't just one game, but during a Monday matinee match against the Vancouver Canucks, the Minnesota Wild should find out if the effort to get into the playoffs is a worthwhile one.
The Canucks have consistently sat atop the Western Conference standings and have been one of the better performing teams throughout the first half of the campaign. So, if the threat of the Wild potentially having to face them in the first round if they sneak into the Wild Card spot and the Canucks are the Pacific Division leaders, this afternoon game should answer some questions like, if it's all worth it.
When: 1:00 p.m. CT
Where: Xcel Energy Center
TV: Bally Sports North
Radio: KFAN 100.3
Projected Wild lineup
Kirill Kaprizov -- Joel Eriksson Ek -- Matt Boldy
Marcus Johansson -- Marco Rossi -- Mats Zuccarello
Brandon Duhaime -- Connor Dewar -- Frederick Gaudreau
Jake Lucchini -- Ryan Hartman -- Vinni Lettieri
Jake Middleton -- Brock Faber
Jonas Brodin -- Zach Bogosian
Jon Merrill -- Declan Chisholm
Filip Gustavsson
(Marc-Andre Fleury)
Projected Canucks lineup
Nils Hoglander -- Elias Lindholm -- Elias Pettersson
Pius Suter -- J.T. Miller -- Brock Boeser
Ilya Mikheyev -- Teddy Blueger -- Conor Garland
Phil Di Giuseppe -- Nils Aman -- Sam Lafferty
Quinn Hughes -- Filip Hronek
Ian Cole -- Tyler Myers
Nikita Zadorov -- Noah Juulsen
Casey DeSmith
(Thatcher Demko)
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