{"id":540662,"date":"2026-04-04T17:56:07","date_gmt":"2026-04-04T17:56:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/540662\/"},"modified":"2026-04-04T17:56:07","modified_gmt":"2026-04-04T17:56:07","slug":"nhl-game-preview-minnesota-wild-at-ottawa-senators-with-line-combinations-04-04-2026","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/540662\/","title":{"rendered":"NHL Game Preview: Minnesota Wild at Ottawa Senators with Line Combinations 04\/04\/2026"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>          <img width=\"1200\" height=\"600\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/Untitled-design-95.png\" class=\"attachment-full size-full wp-post-image\" alt=\"\" decoding=\"async\" fetchpriority=\"high\"  \/><\/p>\n<p>AP Photo\/Matt Krohn<\/p>\n<p>Minnesota Wild (42-21-12, 96 pts)\u00a0at\u00a0Ottawa Senators (39-26-10, 88 pts)<\/p>\n<p>Venue: Canadian Tire Centre<br \/>Date: Saturday, April 4<br \/>Time: 1:00 pm EST<br \/>How To Watch: ESPN+\/TVAS\/TSN5\/FDSN NO\/FDSN WIX<br \/>Radio: 104.5 ESPN Radio\/TSN 1200 CFGO-AM<\/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 picked up a 5-2 win on Thursday over the Canucks. They\u2019re 3-2-0 in their last five games, averaging 3.2 goals per game while allowing 3.4 goals per game. <\/p>\n<p>Ottawa Senators News &amp; Notes:<\/p>\n<p id=\"h-\">The Senators\u00a0snapped their three-game skid with a 4-1 win over the Sabres on Thursday. They\u2019re 2-2-1 in their last five games, averaging three goals per game while allowing 3.4 goals per game. <\/p>\n<p>Minnesota Wild Projected Lines:<\/p>\n<p>Kaprizov-Hartman-Zuccarello<br \/>Johansson-Eriksson Ek-Boldy <br \/>Tarasenko-Yurov-Brink<br \/>Trenin-McCarron-M.Foligno <\/p>\n<p>Hughes-Faber<br \/>Brodin-Spurgeon<br \/>Middleton-Bogosian<\/p>\n<p>Gustavsson<br \/>Wallstedt<\/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>Ottawa Senators Projected Lines:<\/p>\n<p>Zetterlund-Stutzle-Batherson<br \/>Tkachuk-Cozens-Greig<br \/>Giroux-Pinto-Amadio<br \/>Foegele-Eller-Cousins <\/p>\n<p>Kleven-Zub<br \/>Spence-Mantipalo<br \/>Thomson-Crotty<\/p>\n<p>Ullmark<br \/>Reimer<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/shop.insidetherink.com\/collections\/ottawa-hockey\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">Get your Ottawa Hockey Merchandise Here<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Players To Watch:<\/p>\n<p>Minnesota Wild<\/p>\n<p>Joel Eriksson Ek had a goal in Minnesota\u2019s win over Ottawa back in December. <\/p>\n<p>Ottawa Senators<\/p>\n<p>Dylan Cozens had a goal and an assist in Ottawa\u2019s loss to Minnesota back on December 13th. <\/p>\n<p>Injury Report:<\/p>\n<p>Minnesota Wild<\/p>\n<p>D Jared Spurgeon \u2013 DTD<\/p>\n<p>Ottawa Senators<\/p>\n<p id=\"h-\">D Jake Sanderson \u2013 Out<br \/>D Nick Jensen \u2013 Out<br \/>D Dennis Gilbert \u2013 Out<br \/>D Thomas Chabot \u2013 Out<\/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 (42-21-12, 96 pts)\u00a0at\u00a0Ottawa Senators (39-26-10, 88 pts) Venue: Canadian Tire CentreDate: Saturday, April&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":540663,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5118],"tags":[2216,1843,2804,5,5236,499,161,38,5280,4,5573,25,162],"class_list":{"0":"post-540662","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-minnesota-wild","8":"tag-atlantic-division","9":"tag-central-division","10":"tag-dylan-cozens","11":"tag-hockey","12":"tag-injury-report","13":"tag-joel-eriksson-ek","14":"tag-minnesota","15":"tag-minnesota-wild","16":"tag-minnesotawild","17":"tag-nhl","18":"tag-nhl-game-preview","19":"tag-ottawa-senators","20":"tag-wild"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nhl\/116347732002113957","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/540662","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=540662"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/540662\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/540663"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=540662"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=540662"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=540662"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}