Sharks vs. Ducks: Lines, gamethread and discussion thread

San Jose hosts Anaheim at 7:30 p.m. PT at SAP Center tonight on CSN-California looking for its fourth win in a row. The Sharks beat the Ducks in overtime in their only other meeting this season. San Jose beat the Islanders 3-2 on Friday thanks to Patrick Marleau's late heroics while Anaheim fell to Chicago by the same score.

We've got some pregame reading for you:

Aaron Dell proves himself again

Patrick Marleau has found a home with an old friend

Bottom Six Revisited: It’s time to make some changes

Sharks vs. Ducks Preview: San Jose goes for four in a row

Tommy Wingels will not play tonight. He joins Melker Karlsson and Tomas Hertl as forwards currently on the shelf. The Sharks called up Ryan Carpenter and Barclay Goodrow. Here are tonight's projected lines, courtesy of Friend of the Blog Kevin Kurz.

Sharks Projected Lines

Patrick Marleau – Joe Thornton – Joe Pavelski

Joonas Donskoi – Logan Couture – Joel Ward

Mikkel Boedker – Chris Tierney – Matt Nieto

Micheal Haley – Ryan Carpenter – Kevin Labanc

Marc-Edouard Vlasic – Justin Braun

Paul Martin – Brent Burns

Brenden Dillon – David Schlemko

Martin Jones

Aaron Dell

Projected Ducks Lines

Rickard Rakell – Ryan Getzlaf – Corey Perry

Andrew Cogliano – Ryan Kesler – Jakob Silfverberg

Nick Ritchie – Antoine Vermette – Ondrej Kase

Ryan Garbutt – Chris Wagner – Logan Shaw

Cam Fowler – Sami Vatanen

Hampus Lundholm – Josh Manson

Shea Theodore – Kevin Bieksa

John Gibson

Jonathan Bernier

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Marcus White will be at the game tonight. Follow him on Twitter @marcuspwhite and @fearthefin (where he'll be tweeting from this evening). I will be at the Barracuda game in Ontario — you can follow my tweets @jakesundstrom. The Barracuda game begins at 6 p.m.