This is a 10* on MINNESOTA

For much of this year, Minnesota has played considerably better at home. But they've dropped three of four at the Xcel Center, the last one coming as part of a home and home sweep they suffered at the hands of the Calgary Flames. Still the Wild boast an 11-4-4 SU home record. They've had two days off since losing in Calgary. The situation today is a lot better for them than it is for Vancouver, who was in Buffalo yesterday. The Canucks beat the Sabres 6-3 for their first win on the current road trip, but they aren't a particularly good team away from home. They're giving up an average of 3.5 goals in road games, which makes it tough to win as you're not going to score six times every game. The Canucks and Sabres were actually tied 3-3 in the third period yesterday before the former exploded for three goals over the final 14 minutes. Meanwhile, Minnesota has to feel like it outplayed Calgary Thursday as it had 14 shots on goal in the third period, but couldn't get any to go in the back of the net. They lost 2-1, but the good news is that the Wild are 6-2 after allowing two goals or less their last game. Vancouver is 7-17 the last 24 times its been in the second leg of a back to back and they are 1-4 when playing a third game in four days. Play on MINNESOTA

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