Montreal Canadiens (31-17-7, in the Atlantic Division) vs. Minnesota Wild (32-14-10, in the Central Division)<\/p>\n
Saint Paul, Minnesota; Monday, 7:30 p.m. EST<\/p>\n
BOTTOM LINE: The Montreal Canadiens visit the Minnesota Wild seeking to continue a three-game win streak.<\/p>\n
Minnesota has a 16-6-7 record in home games and a 32-14-10 record overall. The Wild have scored 182 total goals (3.2 per game) to rank sixth in the league.<\/p>\n
Montreal is 15-6-6 on the road and 31-17-7 overall. The Canadiens have a +11 scoring differential, with 189 total goals scored and 178 given up.<\/p>\n
The teams square off Monday for the second time this season. The Canadiens won 4-3 in the previous matchup.<\/p>\n
TOP PERFORMERS: Matthew Boldy has 29 goals and 27 assists for the Wild. Vladimir Tarasenko has six goals and four assists over the past 10 games.<\/p>\n
Cole Caufield has 32 goals and 25 assists for the Canadiens. Juraj Slafkovsky has five goals and four assists over the past 10 games.<\/p>\n
LAST 10 GAMES: Wild: 6-3-1, averaging 3.9 goals, 7.1 assists, 3.8 penalties and 8.7 penalty minutes while giving up 3.6 goals per game.<\/p>\n
Canadiens: 6-3-1, averaging four goals, seven assists, 4.2 penalties and 9.8 penalty minutes while giving up 3.2 goals per game.<\/p>\n
INJURIES: Wild: None listed.<\/p>\n
Canadiens: None listed.<\/p>\n
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The Associated Press created this story using technology provided by Data Skrive<\/a> and data from Sportradar<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Montreal Canadiens (31-17-7, in the Atlantic Division) vs. Minnesota Wild (32-14-10, in the Central Division) Saint Paul, Minnesota;…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":5828,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5118],"tags":[53798,301,5,161,38,5280,4,292,43,162],"class_list":{"0":"post-439685","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-minnesota-wild","8":"tag-53798","9":"tag-article","10":"tag-hockey","11":"tag-minnesota","12":"tag-minnesota-wild","13":"tag-minnesotawild","14":"tag-nhl","15":"tag-nhl-hockey","16":"tag-sports","17":"tag-wild"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nhl\/115994988809805882","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/439685","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=439685"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/439685\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5828"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=439685"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=439685"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=439685"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}