Minnesota Wild

vs

Carolina Hurricanes

Minnesota Wild: Line-Up
FORWARDS
Zach Parise	Mikko Koivu		Charlie Coyle
Nino Niederreiter	Mikael Granlund		Jason Pominville
Matt Cooke	Kyle Brodziak		Justin Fontaine
Dany Heatley	Zenon Konopka		Torrey Mitchell
DEFENCEMAN
Ryan Suter		Jonas Brodin
Marco Scandella		Jared Spurgeon
Nate Prosser		Matthew Dumba
GOALTENDERS
Josh Harding
Niklas Backstrom

Carolina Hurricanes: Line-Up
FORWARDS
Jiri Tlusty	Eric Staal		Alexander Semin
Nathan Gerbe	Jordan Staal		Tumo Ruutu
Chris Terry	Riley Nash		Patrick Dwyer
Drayson Bowman	Manny Malholtra		Radek Dvorak
DEFENCEMAN
Andrej Sekera		Justin Faulk
Brett Bellemore		Ron Hainsey
Jay Harrison		Ryan Murphy
GOALTENDERS
Justin Peters
Mike Murphy

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Five Questions:

1. Matt Dumba gets his first game since a disastrous performance against the Blackhawks back in October; how does he look?

2. The Hurricanes are missing their starting goalie, Cam Ward, and back-up, Anton Khudobin; does it hurt them in this game?

3. Does Mike Yeo continue to lean on the 1st defensive pairing very heavily in terms of ice-time?

4. Any points for the 2nd line tonight?

5. Can the Wild go a game without conceding a powerplay goal?

Carolina are a decent team. but the Wild are better and shouldn't have too many problems. Obviously things don't always run smoothly. but this is a very winnable game.

20 years ago today, Wu-Tang Clan released their seminal debut album, so in the spirit of the Wu, hopefully the Wild can Bring The Ruckus (WARNING: NSFW) tonight against the 'Canes.

What are your predictions for this one, Wilderness?

(Don't forget to check out the underlying numbers for both teams before puck-drop)

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