Afternoon from the X, where the Wild and Canucks face off tonight at 6:30 p.m.
If you didn't see today's profile on defenseman Jon Blum, please give it a read here. It's a pretty gripping story.
Darcy Kuemper vs. Eddie Lack.
Alex Burrows dives back into the lineup for Vancouver. No Henrik Sedin though.
For the Wild, Cody McCormick, scratched in the Detroit home-and-home, draws back in for the Wild and Justin Fontaine is scratched (more on that decision below).
The Canucks are six points back of eighth-place Phoenix with nine games left, so they're likely going to head into tonight's game like their season's on the line. You know the Wild would love nothing more than to put the nail in the coffin of their former division rival.
Coach Mike Yeo said the Wild must make sure it's ready to go.
"We better be ready to match that desperation," Yeo said.