This is a 10* on MINNESOTA

Minnesota lost in a shootout, 4-3, here in San Jose on Monday. After tonight, they head to Vegas for two games, which will be a challenge. So they better be focused on gaining some revenge tonight. To be clear, all is not lost in the Twin Cities. The Wild currently sit in third place in the West and there’s a fairly comfortable gap between them and fourth place St. Louis. Do we think they are as good as the top two teams in the division, Vegas and Colorado? No. But they are better than the Sharks. The Wild did win two of this season’s first three meetings with San Jose. One was by a score of 6-2 here in San Jose. Before losing Monday, the Wild had won three straight times. San Jose had lost six of eight and was coming off a shutout loss in Arizona. Yes, we took the Sharks Monday. But as noted in that writeup, the Wild hadn’t played in four days and were also off a very fortunate win. They’ll be determined to show their superiority tonight and we are confident they get the two points. San Jose is just 3-11 off a win. Minnesota is 16-5 the last 21 games as a favorite. Play on MINNESOTA

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