{"id":233068,"date":"2025-10-09T10:19:10","date_gmt":"2025-10-09T10:19:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/233068\/"},"modified":"2025-10-09T10:19:10","modified_gmt":"2025-10-09T10:19:10","slug":"nhl-game-preview-minnesota-wild-at-st-louis-blues-with-line-combinations-10-9-2025","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/233068\/","title":{"rendered":"NHL Game Preview: Minnesota Wild at St. Louis Blues with Line Combinations 10\/9\/2025"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>          <img width=\"1200\" height=\"600\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/Untitled-design-11.png\" class=\"attachment-full size-full wp-post-image\" alt=\"NHL Game Preview: Minnesota Wild at St. Louis Blues with Line Combinations 10\/9\/2025\" decoding=\"async\" fetchpriority=\"high\"  \/><\/p>\n<p>AP Photo\/Jeff Le<\/p>\n<p>Minnesota Wild (0-0-0, 0 pts) at St. Louis Blues (0-0-0, 0 pts) <\/p>\n<p>Venue: Enterprise Center<br \/>Date: Thursday, October 9<br \/>Time: 8:00 pm EST<br \/>TV: ESPN+\/FDSM\/FDSW Extra<br \/>Radio:\u00a0<br \/>Minnesota \u2013 KFAN 100.3 FM<br \/>St. Louis \u2013 101 ESPN (101.1 FM)<\/p>\n<p>DraftKings Sportsbook Betting Lines:<\/p>\n<p>Minnesota: +1.5, M\/L -102<br \/>St. Louis: -1.5, M\/L -118<br \/>O\/U 5.5<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/ticketmaster.evyy.net\/c\/5142595\/264167\/4272?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.ticketmaster.com\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Purchase tickets via Ticketmaster<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Minnesota Wild News &amp; Notes:<\/p>\n<p>The Wild open the season tonight after a 3-2-1 preseason in which they averaged 2.3 goals per game while allowing three goals per game.<a href=\"https:\/\/insidetherink.com\/author\/tysmith\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><\/p>\n<p>St. Louis Blues News &amp; Notes:\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The Blues kick off their 2025-26 season tonight. They went 2-3-1 in the preseason, winning their final two games. In the preseason, they averaged three goals per game while allowing 2.7 goals per game.<\/p>\n<p>Minnesota Wild Projected Lines:<\/p>\n<p>Kaprizov-Rossi-Boldy<br \/>Foligno-Eriksson Ek-Tarasenko <br \/>Trenin-Hartman-Johansson<br \/>Yurov-Sturm-Ohgren<\/p>\n<p>Middleton-Faber<br \/>Buium-Spurgeon<br \/>Bogosian-Jiricek<\/p>\n<p>Gustavsson<br \/>Wallstedt<\/p>\n<p>Get Minnesota Hockey Merchandise Here: <a href=\"https:\/\/shop.insidetherink.com\/collections\/minnesota-hockey?_pos=1&amp;_psq=minnes&amp;_ss=e&amp;_v=1.0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Minnesota Hockey<\/a><\/p>\n<p>St. Louis Blues Projected Lines:\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Buchnevich-Thomas-Snuggerud<br \/>Holloway-Suter-Kyrou<br \/>Neighbours-Schenn-Joseph<br \/>Toropchenko-Bjugstad-Texier<\/p>\n<p>Fowler-Parayko<br \/>Broberg-Faulk<br \/>Tucker-Mailloux<\/p>\n<p>Binnington<br \/>Hofer<\/p>\n<p>Get St. Louis Hockey Merchandise Here: <a href=\"https:\/\/shop.insidetherink.com\/collections\/st-louis-hockey?_pos=1&amp;_psq=st+louis&amp;_ss=e&amp;_v=1.0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">St. Louis Hockey<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Players To Watch:<\/p>\n<p>Minnesota Wild<\/p>\n<p>Kirill Kaprizov last season recorded 56 points in 41 games on 25 goals and 31 assists. He has faced the Blues 19 times in his career, recording 17 points on eight goals and nine assists. Last season, in two games against them, he scored two goals and had two assists.  <\/p>\n<p>St. Louis Blues\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Pavel Buchnevich last season in 76 games had 57 points on 20 goals and 37 assists. In 21 games in his career against the Wild, he\u2019s recorded 22 points on ten goals and 12 assists; in four games last season, he finished with a goal and three assists. <\/p>\n<p>Injury Report:<\/p>\n<p>Minnesota Wild<\/p>\n<p>F Mats Zuccarello \u2013 IR<br \/>D Jonas Brodin\u00a0\u2013 DTD<br \/>F Nico Sturm \u2013 DTD<\/p>\n<p>St. Louis Blues<\/p>\n<p>D\u00a0Torey Krug\u00a0\u2013 IR<br \/>F Oskar Sundqvist \u2013 DTD<\/p>\n<p>Next Game:<\/p>\n<p>Minnesota \u2013 October 11 vs. <a href=\"https:\/\/insidetherink.com\/category\/nhl\/eastern-conference\/metropolitan-division\/columbus-blue-jackets\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">Columbus Blue Jackets<\/a><br \/>St. Louis \u2013 October 11 at <a href=\"https:\/\/insidetherink.com\/category\/nhl\/western-conference\/pacific-division\/calgary-flames\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">Calgary Flames<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\tDiscover more from Inside The Rink<\/p>\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\" style=\"margin-top:10px;margin-bottom:10px;font-size:15px\">Subscribe to get the latest posts sent to your email.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"AP Photo\/Jeff Le Minnesota Wild (0-0-0, 0 pts) at St. Louis Blues (0-0-0, 0 pts) Venue: Enterprise CenterDate:&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":233069,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5120],"tags":[71,5,3647,537,37660,38,4,248,1480,531,534,84,5285,5284,5083],"class_list":{"0":"post-233068","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-st-louis-blues","8":"tag-blues","9":"tag-hockey","10":"tag-jonas-brodin","11":"tag-kirill-kaprizov","12":"tag-mats-zucccarello","13":"tag-minnesota-wild","14":"tag-nhl","15":"tag-nico-sturm","16":"tag-oskar-sundqvist","17":"tag-pavel-buchnevich","18":"tag-st-louis","19":"tag-st-louis-blues","20":"tag-stlouis","21":"tag-stlouisblues","22":"tag-torey-krug"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nhl\/115343705084351616","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/233068","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=233068"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/233068\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/233069"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=233068"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=233068"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=233068"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}