Red Wings vs Wild Picks, Predictions, and Odds Tonight
The Detroit Red Wings and the Minnesota Wild will meet at Xcel Energy Center on Wednesday night. Detroit beat Minnesota 2-1 on October 29, but they have lost six of their last eight straight-up. Minnesota has won six out of its last 8 games.
Kirill Kaprizov is the engine that drives the Minnesota Wild offense. He leads his team in goals and points. Oddsmakers are offering him disadvantageous prop bets against the Red Wings. However, he's a bargain on the power play points market. He's listed at -110 to score at least one point on that play. His last 10 points have come from the man advantage.
Kirill Kaprizov is the best bet to win over 0.5 power-play points.
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The Wild are a good bet to cover the puck line of -1.5 goals at +107. The Wild have won four of their last eight games. Detroit has lost six of its last 8 games and is 19-40 in their past 59 games played on the second half of back-to-back. Marc-Andre Fleury should start for Minnesota.
The Red Wings have gone below the total in six straight games. Dylan Larkin is out injured. Detroit has cashed in on nine of their last 35 power plays chances (25.7%), while the Wild have turned back only 19 of opponent's last 27 chances. Minnesota has scored at least one power-play goal in nine out of its last 10 games (11 of 33). Detroit's penalty kill has surrendered at at most one man-advantage marker in five of last seven games overall. Mats Zuccarello has had a hot stick in December, notching a point in seven straight matches.
The home team is 9-4 in the last 13 meetings between these two squads.
