The Minnesota Wild ended a three game skid Tuesday with a 2-1 win at Chicago. They're closing out the regular season with two more games on the road, with the next stop at Nashville tonight. They're about to face a Predators team looking to snap a four game losing streak of its own, and I think we're getting a good price on the hosts here.

Here are my keys to the game:

1. Minnesota's Goalscoring Woes - The Wild have tallied three goals or more only twice over their last eight games and have found the net a lowly six times over their last four. Goals won't come easy tonight either coming up one of the toughest goaltenders in the league, Pekka Rinne. Although the Finn has not been at his best of late, keep in mind that he's 25-7-4 behind a 2.10 GAA over 36 starts at Nashville on the season.

2. Situational/Motivational - The Preds must be desperate to get back to winning hockey for the upcoming playoffs and can still clinch the Central Division title sitting only one point behind the Blues. Meanwhile a sense of mission accomplished might breeze through the Minnesota camp as the club now officially has clinched a playoff spot.

3. X-Factor - The Predators rookie-sensation Filip Forsberg is only one point behind Johnny Gaudreau for the point-lead for newcomers and will be poised to make the title his own.

Selection: This is a play on the Nashville Predators (*8)