Sat 3/21/15 5:15 PM

Gleason (elbow) will take the pre game warmup in Winnipeg on Saturday and will be a game-time decision, Mike Vogel of Monumental Network reports. Gleason missed Thursday's contest against the Wild with the ailment and may be held out of the lineup as a precaution, as a healthy Nate Schmidt helps mitigate the need to play the rugged defenseman, acquired from the Carolina Hurricanes just prior to the trade deadline earlier in March, on a nightly basis. Even in the lineup, Gleason's lack of offensive production renders him largely irrelevant outside of very deep leagues that count peripheral statistics like Hits or Blocked Shots.