{"id":536662,"date":"2026-04-02T14:24:14","date_gmt":"2026-04-02T14:24:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/536662\/"},"modified":"2026-04-02T14:24:14","modified_gmt":"2026-04-02T14:24:14","slug":"wild-look-to-bounce-back-host-struggling-canucks-tonight","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/536662\/","title":{"rendered":"Wild Look to Bounce Back, Host Struggling Canucks Tonight"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Detroit Lakes, MN (KDLM) \u2013 The Minnesota Wild return home tonight looking to put a rough road trip behind them when they host the Vancouver Canucks at Xcel Energy Center. Puck drop is set for 7:00 PM.<\/p>\n<p class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal leading-[1.7]\">Minnesota dropped a tough one on Saturday, falling to the Boston Bruins 6-3 on the road. Despite the loss, the Wild remain in third place in the Central Division with a 41-21 record, sitting comfortably in a playoff position.<\/p>\n<p class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal leading-[1.7]\">Tonight\u2019s opponent, however, may be just what the doctor ordered. Vancouver comes to St. Paul as one of the weakest teams in the Western Conference, posting a 22-44 record that has them eliminated from postseason contention.<\/p>\n<p class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal leading-[1.7]\">With just a handful of regular-season games remaining, the Wild will be eager to keep pace in the Central and fine-tune their game ahead of the playoffs.<\/p>\n<p class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal leading-[1.7]\">Tonight\u2019s game gets underway at 7:00 PM at Xcel Energy Center in St. Paul.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Detroit Lakes, MN (KDLM) \u2013 The Minnesota Wild return home tonight looking to put a rough road trip&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":536663,"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-536662","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\/116335572961883781","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/536662","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=536662"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/536662\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/536663"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=536662"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=536662"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=536662"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}