BOSTON -- Boston Bruins defenseman Johnny Boychuk will not play Monday against the Minnesota Wild (7:30 p.m. ET, NBCSN, TSN2) because of a lower-body injury.

Boychuk went feet-first into the end wall in the third period against the Carolina Hurricanes on Saturday. He returned to the game but wasn't able to take part in the morning skate with the Bruins on Monday.

"He didn't skate this morning because he can't," Bruins coach Claude Julien said. "Right now he's too sore, so he's day-to-day. It's from obviously the incident [Saturday], and so he couldn't skate this morning. He came in early and we tried to see if he could and he couldn't."

Boychuk has three goals, 20 points and a plus-30 rating in 63 games.

Julien said the Bruins will dress seven defensemen for the pregame warm-up and decide who's scratched at game time. The top candidate to play would be Andrej Meszaros, who was scratched against the Hurricanes.

The Wild will make one lineup change, with forward Justin Fontaine going in for forward Cody McCormick. Fontaine had been scratched for the Wild's past five games.

"Obviously we're playing a team that's very deep, a team that's going to play four lines and play them effectively," Wild coach Mike Yeo said. "So we're looking to see [Fontaine] come in and hopefully get right to where he was when he came out of the lineup. Obviously when we added a couple players it had a big impact on a lot of guys, and probably him more so than anybody. But when he's playing well he's playing a strong game in the offensive zone, he's executing along the wall and he's a reliable two-way player."

Fontaine has 12 goals and six assists in 54 games this season.

Here are the projected lineups for both teams:

BRUINS

Milan Lucic - David Krejci - Jarome Iginla

Brad Marchand - Patrice Bergeron - Reilly Smith

Chris Kelly - Carl Soderberg - Loui Eriksson

Daniel Paille - Gregory Campbell - Shawn Thornton

Zdeno Chara - Andrej Meszaros

Matt Bartkowski - Kevan Miller

Torey Krug - Dougie Hamilton

Tuukka Rask

Chad Johnson

Scratched: Jordan Caron, Corey Potter

Injured: Johnny Boychuk (lower body), Adam McQuaid (quad), Dennis Seidenberg (knee)

WILD

Zach Parise - Mikael Granlund - Jason Pominville

Matt Moulson - Mikko Koivu - Charlie Coyle

Matt Cooke - Kyle Brodziak - Nino Niederreiter

Dany Heatley - Erik Haula - Justin Fontaine

Ryan Suter - Jared Spurgeon

Marco Scandella - Jonas Brodin

Clayton Stoner - Keith Ballard

Darcy Kuemper

Ilya Bryzgalov

Scratched: Cody McCormick, Nate Prosser, Mike Rupp

Injured: Niklas Backstrom (undisclosed), Jason Zucker (lower body), Josh Harding (illness)