Vancouver Canucks (22-44-8, in the Pacific Division) vs. Minnesota Wild (41-21-12, in the Central Division)<\/p>\n
Saint Paul, Minnesota; Thursday, 8 p.m. EDT<\/p>\n
BETMGM SPORTSBOOK LINE: Wild -426, Canucks +326; over\/under is 6.5<\/p>\n
BOTTOM LINE: The Vancouver Canucks visit the Minnesota Wild after Brock Boeser’s hat trick against the Colorado Avalanche in the Canucks’ 8-6 win.<\/p>\n
Minnesota has a 41-21-12 record overall and a 20-10-8 record in home games. The Wild have a 36-5-6 record in games they score at least three goals.<\/p>\n
Vancouver has a 14-19-3 record on the road and a 22-44-8 record overall. The Canucks have a 7-17-3 record in games their opponents serve fewer penalty minutes.<\/p>\n
The teams match up Thursday for the third time this season. The Canucks won the last meeting 4-2. Aatu Raty scored two goals in the victory.<\/p>\n
TOP PERFORMERS: Kirill Kaprizov has 39 goals and 42 assists for the Wild. Vladimir Tarasenko has five goals and four assists over the past 10 games.<\/p>\n
Boeser has 21 goals and 22 assists for the Canucks. Jake DeBrusk has scored three goals with one assist over the last 10 games.<\/p>\n
LAST 10 GAMES: Wild: 4-5-1, averaging 2.7 goals, 4.6 assists, 4.4 penalties and 10.2 penalty minutes while giving up 2.6 goals per game.<\/p>\n
Canucks: 3-7-0, averaging 2.9 goals, five assists, 3.4 penalties and 11.7 penalty minutes while giving up 4.1 goals per game.<\/p>\n
INJURIES: Wild: Jared Spurgeon: day to day (undisclosed).<\/p>\n
Canucks: Thatcher Demko: out for season (hip), Evander Kane: day to day (undisclosed), Victor Mancini: day to day (undisclosed), Derek Forbort: out (undisclosed), Filip Chytil: out (face).<\/p>\n
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The Associated Press created this story using technology provided by Data Skrive and data from Sportradar.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"By The Associated Press Vancouver Canucks (22-44-8, in the Pacific Division) vs. Minnesota Wild (41-21-12, in the Central…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":37280,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[5128],"tags":[894,5,4,893,27,5313],"class_list":{"0":"post-536229","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-vancouver-canucks","8":"tag-canucks","9":"tag-hockey","10":"tag-nhl","11":"tag-vancouver","12":"tag-vancouver-canucks","13":"tag-vancouvercanucks"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nhl\/116334131798448732","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/536229","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=536229"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/536229\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/37280"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=536229"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=536229"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=536229"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}