MONTREAL — With only one victory through their first five games, the Wild continue to tinker with their lineup and another new look will take to the ice on Tuesday against the Canadiens at Bell Centre.
"Would we like to leave the lines exactly how they were and the pairs? Yeah, of course," coach Dean Evason said. "That means things are going extremely well. When they don't, you have to make some decisions. Sometimes they're easy decisions; sometimes they're tough."
The Wild (1-3-1) are splitting up longtime linemates Marcus Foligno and Joel Eriksson Ek, with Foligno teaming up with Marco Rossi and Matt Boldy and Eriksson Ek centering Brandon Duhaime and Ryan Hartman.
Jordan Greenway will not meet up with the team on the road and is on injured reserve after suffering an upper-body injury last week in his season debut.
As for the top line, Frederick Gaudreau will join Kirill Kaprizov and Mats Zuccarello.
"Gauds has played extremely well," Evason said. "He's defensively sound, and offensively he's played as well as anybody on our hockey club."
After beginning this road trip with a 4-3 overtime loss to the Bruins, the Wild are also changing up their defense.
Jonas Brodin is now with Calen Addison, and Jon Merrill is next to Matt Dumba.
