Wild at Edmonton preview box

WILD GAMEDAY

7 p.m. at Edmonton, BSN, 100.3-FM

Canada trip starts with visit to surging Oilers

Wild update: Minnesota (30-13-3, 63 points) faces the Oilers to start a four-game, seven-day trip back-and-forth across Canada. The Wild is coming off back-to-back losses, 6-3 at Winnipeg on Wednesday and 6-2 to Florida on Friday. Minnesota is 14-9-2 on the road with consecutive losses at Winnipeg. The Wild defeated the Oilers 4-1 in Edmonton on Dec. 7 as C Joel Eriksson Ek had a goal and an assist and RW Mats Zuccarello had two assists. … LW Kirill Kaprizov scored his 50^th career goal in his 100^th game on Friday. Only Teemu Selanne (84), Eric Lindros (67), Alex Ovechkin (64), Pavel Bure (64) and Austin Matthews (52) have more goals in their first 100 games. … D Matt Dumba (lower body) is not expected to make the trip and is out indefinitely. The Wild recalled D Calen Addison from Iowa of the AHL and reassigned C Victor Rask and D Dakota Mermis to Iowa. C Nick Bjugstad (finger) has been cleared to return and will be on the trip.

Oilers update: Edmonton (28-18-3, 59 points) will be playing the second game of a back-to-back after defeating the Jets 4-2 in Winnipeg on Saturday. The Oilers have won five in a row, outscoring opponents 22-8. C Connor McDavid had a goal and two assists against the Jets and leads the NHL in scoring with 71 points on 26 goals and 45 assists. C Leon Draisaitl leads the NHL with 35 goals and ranks second with 69 points. McDavid has seven goals and 10 assists in 15 career games vs. Minnesota. … G Mikko Koskinen, who made 22 saves Saturday, is 17-8-2 with a 3.11 goals-against average and .901 save percentage in 27 games this season. Veteran Mike Smith (5-4-1, 3.31, .904) has played 11 games. … RW Zack Kassian (jaw), D Duncan Keith (concussion), RW Jesse Puljujarvi (lower body) and D Kris Russell (undisclosed) are on injured reserve.

Randy Johnson