Mikko Koivu, Mikael Granlund set for preseason debuts for Wild against Colorado

The Wild, 2-0 this preseason, face Colorado at Xcel Energy Center.

September 23, 2017 at 9:03PM
Wild captain Mikko Koivu, 34, said he didn't want to sign more than a two-year extension and that he doesn't see this deal as his last.
Wild captain Mikko Koivu, 34, said he didn’t want to sign more than a two-year extension and that he doesn’t see this deal as his last. (Brian Wicker — Star Tribune/The Minnesota Star Tribune)

The Wild plays the third of seven preseason games tonight, taking on Colorado, at Xcel Energy Center.

Ryan Suter, Mikko Koivu, Mikael Granlund and Eric Staal are expected to see their first action of the preseason. The Wild won its first two preseason games, both against Winnipeg (3-2 in a shootout and 1-0).

Here is the Wild's projected lineup:

FORWARD LINES

22 NIEDERREITER – 12 STAAL – 63 ENNIS
16 ZUCKER – 9 KOIVU – 64 GRANLUND
37 RAU – 18 O'REILLY – 48 ANAS
21 MALONE – 82 KLOOS – 10 STEWART

DEFENSEMEN

20 SUTER – 24 DUMBA
23 OLOFSSON – 72 MENELL
36 SEELER – 6 MURPHY

GOALTENDERS
40 DUBNYK
32 STALOCK

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Joe Christensen

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Joe Christensen, a Minnesota Star Tribune sports team leader, graduated from the University of Minnesota and spent 15 years covering Major League Baseball, including stops at the Riverside Press-Enterprise and Baltimore Sun. He joined the Minnesota Star Tribune in 2005 and spent four years covering Gophers football.

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