The Florida Panthers (19-11-2) will complete their grueling five-game road trip and close out the season series when they take on the Minnesota Wild (20-7-4) tonight at the Xcel Energy Center.

The Panthers got multi-point performances from Carter Verhaeghe, Sam Reinhart, Niko Mikkola and Anton Lundell and ended a two-game losing streak with a 6-5 victory over the Edmonton Oilers on Monday. Jesper Boqvist’s first career shorthanded goal ended Florida’s two-game goal drought, and Verhaeghe scored the winner with 6:55 left in regulation. Florida will look to avenge its 5-1 loss to Minnesota in the teams’ first meeting this season.

The Wild enter the fourth of five home games that have featured alternating wins and losses over the last six games. On Sunday, Kirill Kaprizov’s brace wasn’t enough as Minnesota fell 3-2 to the Vergas Golden Knights in goaltender Jesper Wallstedt’s first start of the season. Kaprizov has scored as many as 22 goals and is tied for second in the league with 47 points. While Filip Gustavsson (lower body) remains out, Marc-Andre Fleury will start.

• WHEN: 9:30 p.m. ET
• WHERE: Xcel Energy Center – St. Paul, MN
• ON THE TUBE: TNT, MAX, FDSNNO
• ON THE DIAL: 560 WQAM (D/B), 1230 The Gambler (PB), Thunder 100.3 (keys)
• SOCIAL: #TimeToHunt, #mnwild, #FLAvsMIN, @LitterBoxCatsLBC FaceBook
• Enemy information: Hockey Wilderness
• FLA IN SEASON SERIES: Game 2 of 2 (0-1)
• LAST MEETING: MIN 5, @FLA 1 (summary) – 10/22/2024
• NEXT MEETING: Stanley Cup Finals or 2025-26 season
• PROPOSED STARTERS: Florida: Bobrovsky (14-6-1,889 / 2.97 1SO) Minnesota: Fleury (6-1-1,909 / 2.84 0SO)
• PLAYER STATISTICS: Florida/Minnesota

Wednesday in the Atlantic (Rankings/Panthers playoff chances)

• Philadelphia (13/14/4 32 p.m.) in DETROIT (12/14/4 30 p.m.) 7 p.m. (TNT)
• TORONTO (10/19/2, 40 p.m.) at Dallas (11/19/0, 38 p.m.) 7:30 p.m

Idle: BOS (37P), TBL (36P) OTT (34P), MON (27P), BUF (26P)