ST. LOUIS — After evening the series with a 6-2 rout on Wednesday, the Wild won't alter its lineup for Game 3 against the Blues on Friday night.
But what is changing is the venue.
The Wild has lost seven in a row at Enterprise Center, getting outscored 35-15 in those games.
"It's always tough going into another team's building in the playoffs with the fans and everything like that," winger Jordan Greenway said. "For us, we have to find a way to not allow them to get momentum from it and kind of try and not give them anything to cheer about. For us just building off of what we did last game and just focusing on the little things that gave us the success we had and try to keep out all the external pressures and things that we don't need to worry about."
Now as the road team, the Wild won't get last change and that could affect the team's ability to get the matchups it wants.
"It'll be interesting what they try to do tonight," coach Dean Evason. "They obviously know what we were trying to do there. They may try to stay away from some. But again, we're not going to be flipping people off and on. We'll get the defense match off of what they would like to do against our forward match.
"If we get it, fine. If we don't, great. We're very comfortable with the group that we have, and we have been all year. It doesn't matter if it's our so-called first line or fourth line or if it's our scoring line or our checking line. We play the same way."
Projected lineup:
