Minnesota Wild (45-22-12, in the Central Division) vs. Nashville Predators (37-32-10, in the Central Division)<\/p>\n
Nashville, Tennessee; Saturday, 5 p.m. EDT<\/p>\n
BOTTOM LINE: The Minnesota Wild visit the Nashville Predators after Kirill Kaprizov\u2019s two-goal game against the Dallas Stars in the Wild\u2019s 5-4 loss.<\/p>\n
Nashville is 11-10-4 against the Central Division and 37-32-10 overall. The Predators have a -24 scoring differential, with 234 total goals scored and 258 given up.<\/p>\n
Minnesota is 45-22-12 overall and 13-8-3 against the Central Division. The Wild have a +36 scoring differential, with 261 total goals scored and 225 allowed.<\/p>\n
The teams meet Saturday for the fourth time this season. The Wild won 6-5 in overtime in the last meeting. Matthew Boldy led the Wild with three goals.<\/p>\n
TOP PERFORMERS: Filip Forsberg has scored 38 goals with 35 assists for the Predators. Ryan O\u2019Reilly has one goal and seven assists over the last 10 games.<\/p>\n
Kaprizov has 45 goals and 44 assists for the Wild. Ryan Hartman has seven goals and five assists over the last 10 games.<\/p>\n
LAST 10 GAMES: Predators: 5-4-1, averaging 3.2 goals, 5.5 assists, four penalties and 11.2 penalty minutes while giving up 2.8 goals per game.<\/p>\n
Wild: 6-4-0, averaging 3.5 goals, 5.6 assists, 4.4 penalties and 11 penalty minutes while giving up 2.8 goals per game.<\/p>\n
INJURIES: Predators: Nicolas Hague: day to day (upper-body), Roman Josi: day to day (upper body).<\/p>\n
Wild: Zach Bogosian: out (undisclosed).<\/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":"Minnesota Wild (45-22-12, in the Central Division) vs. Nashville Predators (37-32-10, in the Central Division) Nashville, Tennessee; Saturday,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":430459,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5119],"tags":[147,37676,3577,5,537,8813,161,38,1277,2409,231,5281,4,292,3709,2410,1501,2029,3671,43,2415,4894,3703],"class_list":{"0":"post-549516","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nashville-predators","8":"tag-dallas-stars","9":"tag-data-skrive","10":"tag-filip-forsberg","11":"tag-hockey","12":"tag-kirill-kaprizov","13":"tag-matthew-boldy","14":"tag-minnesota","15":"tag-minnesota-wild","16":"tag-mn-state-wire","17":"tag-nashville","18":"tag-nashville-predators","19":"tag-nashvillepredators","20":"tag-nhl","21":"tag-nhl-hockey","22":"tag-nicolas-hague","23":"tag-predators","24":"tag-roman-josi","25":"tag-ryan-hartman","26":"tag-ryan-oreilly","27":"tag-sports","28":"tag-tennessee","29":"tag-tn-state-wire","30":"tag-zach-bogosian"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nhl\/116380308867546445","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/549516","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=549516"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/549516\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/430459"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=549516"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=549516"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=549516"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}