The Minnesota Wild close the 2025-26 regular season tonight at Grand Casino Arena against the Ducks, a game that comes one night after Minnesota fell to the Blues 6-3. It is the final chance to see how the club lines up before the season ends.
On the projected first line are Yakov Trenin, Danila Yurov and Vladimir Tarasenko, followed by Marcus Johansson, Hunter Haight and Bobby Brink on the second line. Nico Sturm centers the third line between Michael McCarron and Nick Foligno, while Robby Fabbri, Ben Jones and Nicolas Aubé-Kubel are projected on the fourth line.
On defense, the projected pairing is Viking Gustafsson Nyberg with Jared Spurgeon. The listing is only a projection, so the Wild can still change it before puck drop, but it gives a clear view of how the team is expected to finish a long season at home.
That matters because this is the last game of the 2025-26 regular season, and Minnesota is coming off a loss that left little room for a soft finish. For players such as Trenin, Yurov, Tarasenko and Spurgeon, tonight is the final snapshot of how the roster is being used when the games still count.
The clean look on paper may not hold for long. Projected lineups are always fluid, and a team ending the season after a 6-3 defeat has every reason to keep one eye on the ice and the other on what comes next.
