{"id":397995,"date":"2026-01-08T18:28:15","date_gmt":"2026-01-08T18:28:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/397995\/"},"modified":"2026-01-08T18:28:15","modified_gmt":"2026-01-08T18:28:15","slug":"nhl-game-preview-minnesota-wild-at-seattle-kraken-with-line-combinations-1-8-2026","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/397995\/","title":{"rendered":"NHL Game Preview: Minnesota Wild at Seattle Kraken with Line Combinations 1\/8\/2026"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>          <img width=\"1200\" height=\"600\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/Untitled-design-19.png\" class=\"attachment-full size-full wp-post-image\" alt=\"NHL Game Preview: Minnesota Wild at Seattle Kraken with Line Combinations 1\/8\/2026\" decoding=\"async\" fetchpriority=\"high\"  \/><\/p>\n<p>AP Photo\/Matt Krohn<\/p>\n<p id=\"h-\">Minnesota Wild (25-11-8, 58 pts) at Seattle Kraken (20-14-7, 47 pts)<\/p>\n<p>Venue: crypto.com Arena<br \/>Date: Monday, January 5<br \/>Time: 10:30 pm EST<br \/>How To Watch:\u00a0ESPN+\/The Spot\/FDSNW<\/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 lost back-to-back games to the Kings, losing Saturday 5-4 in a shootout and Monday 4-2. The loss on Monday also snapped their six-game point streak. They\u2019re 2-1-2 in their last five games, averaging 3.8 goals per game while allowing 3.4 goals per game. <\/p>\n<p>Seattle Kraken News &amp; Notes:<\/p>\n<p id=\"h-\">The Kraken picked up their fourth straight win on Tuesday with a 7-4 victory over the Bruins. They\u2019ve won eight of their last nine games, averaging four goals per game while allowing two goals per game.<\/p>\n<p>Minnesota Wild Projected Lines:<\/p>\n<p>Kaprizov-Yurov-Zuccarello<br \/>Johansson-Eriksson Ek-Boldy<br \/>Hinostroza-Hartman-Tarasenko<br \/>Foligno-Sturm-Trenin<\/p>\n<p>Hughes-Faber<br \/>Brodin-Spurgeon<br \/>Middleton-Kierstad<\/p>\n<p>Wallstedt<br \/>Gustavsson<\/p>\n<p><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\">Get Minnesota Hockey Merchandise Here:<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Seattle Kraken Projected Lines:<\/p>\n<p>Kakko-Beniers-Eberle<br \/>Winterton-Stephenson-Gaudreau<br \/>Catton-Wright-McCann<br \/>Kartye-Meyers-Melanson<\/p>\n<p>Dunn-Larsson<br \/>Lindgren-Fleury<br \/>Evans-Oleksiak<\/p>\n<p>Daccord<br \/>Grubauer<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/shop.insidetherink.com\/collections\/seattle-hockey?_pos=1&amp;_psq=seattle&amp;_ss=e&amp;_v=1.0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Get Seattle Hockey Merchandise Here:<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Players To Watch:<\/p>\n<p>Minnesota Wild<\/p>\n<p>Joel Eriksson Ek had a goal and two assists in the first meeting against the Kraken back in December.<\/p>\n<p>Seattle Kraken<\/p>\n<p>Jordan Eberle scored Seattle\u2019s lone goal in their 4-1 loss to the Wild back on December 8th.<\/p>\n<p>Injury Report:<\/p>\n<p>Minnesota Wild<\/p>\n<p>D Daemon Hunt\u00a0\u2013 IR<br \/>D Zach Bogosian \u2013 DTD<\/p>\n<p>Seattle Kraken<\/p>\n<p>G Matt Murray\u00a0\u2013 IR<br \/>F Jaden Schwartz\u00a0\u2013 IR<br \/>D Brandon Montour \u2013 IR<br \/>F Eeli Tolvanen \u2013 DTD<\/p>\n<p>Next Game:<\/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\/Matt Krohn Minnesota Wild (25-11-8, 58 pts) at Seattle Kraken (20-14-7, 47 pts) Venue: crypto.com ArenaDate: Monday,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":397996,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5118],"tags":[2579,1843,4154,5,8054,499,6208,2174,161,38,5280,4,5573,2219,234,162],"class_list":{"0":"post-397995","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-minnesota-wild","8":"tag-brandon-montour","9":"tag-central-division","10":"tag-eeli-tolvanen","11":"tag-hockey","12":"tag-jaden-schwartz","13":"tag-joel-eriksson-ek","14":"tag-jordan-eberle","15":"tag-matt-murray","16":"tag-minnesota","17":"tag-minnesota-wild","18":"tag-minnesotawild","19":"tag-nhl","20":"tag-nhl-game-preview","21":"tag-pacific-division","22":"tag-seattle-kraken","23":"tag-wild"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nhl\/115860898207858587","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/397995","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=397995"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/397995\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/397996"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=397995"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=397995"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=397995"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}