Surprising Player Listed As Brad Marchand's Replacement Moments Before Boston Bruins Game

Their five game losing streak came to an end Saturday when they visited PPG Paints Arena to take on the Pittsburgh Penguins, beating them 3-2.

Unfortunately for the Bruins they had to play more then half of the game without their captain as Brad Marchand left the game after taking a scary hit along the boards just under six minutes into the game.

NESN has revealed that Brad Marchand is not expected to be dressing up for the Bruins matinee game today against the Wild.

NESN also speculates that Justin Brazeau may be dressing up after being healthy scratched against the Penguins on Saturday, filling in for Brad Marchand.

Also, NESN has the Bruins projected lineup, and revealed that Jeffrey Viel could be replacing Brad Marchand on the top line with Elias Lindholm and Charlie Coyle.

Here are the projected lines and defensive pairings for the Bruins-Wild tilt, which will have full coverage on NESN beginning at 2:30 p.m. ET.

BRUINS (28-25-8)
Morgan Geekie - Pavel Zacha - David Pastrnak
Jeffrey Viel - Elias Lindholm - Charlie Coyle
Cole Koepke - Matthew Poitras - Justin Brazeau
Georgii Merkulov - John Beecher - Mark Kastelic

Nikita Zadorov - Brandon Carlo
Mason Lohrei - Andrew Peeke
Jordan Oesterle - Parker Wotherspoon

WILD (34-22-4)

Marcus Johansson - Marco Rossi - Mats Zuccarello
Matt Boldy - Frederick Gaudreau - Gustav Nyquist
Marcus Foligno - Devin Shore - Vinnie Hinostroza
Jakub Lauko - Brendan Gaunce - Yakov Trenin

Jake Middleton - Brock Faber
David Jiricek - Jared Spurgeon
Declan Chisholm - Jon Merrill