The Minnesota Wild returns home after a quick two-game West Coast road trip and tonight hosts the Edmonton Oilers. The last time the two teams met was in Edmonton, with the Wild skating to a 3-1 victory on Feb. 21. However, in the game Minnesota lost right wing Cal Clutterbuck after taking a knee from Oilers’ forward Taylor Hall. For the hit, Hall was ejected from the game and given a major penalty. He also received a two-game suspension from the National Hockey League.

Since the hit, Clutterbuck has missed three games with a lower body injury and has not skated with the team. He’ll be out of the lineup again tonight, but Wild Head Coach Mike Yeo said he did skate on his own today before the team's practice. Hall may miss tonight’s game with a lower body injury as he left the Oilers’ game on Friday after crashing into the boards and is currently considered day-to-day.

Tonight against the Oilers, Minnesota looks to continue its strong play on the penalty kill, ranking sixth in the NHL at 85.9 percent, against an Edmonton power play unit that is converting on 21.7 percent of its chances. The Wild is 8-3-1 when not allowing a power play goal. Furthermore, the team has been disciplined all season, going shorthanded just 64 times this season, which ranks the Wild second fewest in the NHL.

After having a day off on Friday, Niklas Backstrom will return to the net and he’s been stellar of late. The netminder is 5-1-1 in his last seven starts with a 1.66 goals against average and a .933 save percentage.

Defenseman Nick Schultz will return to Minnesota for the first time since being traded to Edmonton in exchange for defenseman Tom Gilbert on February 27, 2012. Schultz spent parts of 10 seasons with the Wild (2001- 12) and is the franchise leader in games played (743) and ranks 10th all time in points and seventh in assists (26-102=128).

In the second game of back-to-back nights on Friday, the Wild mounted a third period comeback but came up just short against the Anaheim Ducks, 3-2. After falling behind 3-0 after two periods, Kyle Brodziak and Devin Setoguchi scored third period goals, but the Wild was unable to complete the comeback. In his third NHL start, Darcy Kuemper 26 saves.

Edmonton suffered a 4-2 road loss against the St. Louis Blues on Friday. The Oilers gave up a two-goal first period lead, allowing St. Louis to score four unanswered goals. Taylor Hall and Ryan Whitney scored for Edmonton, while Devan Dubnyk made 26 saves in the loss.