New York Rangers at Minnesota Wild: game preview
NY RangersRangers2026-27: 4-1-0 · 8 pts · 2025-26: 34-39-9 · 77 pts · 30that
MinnesotaWild2026-27: 2-0-1 · 5 pts · 2025-26: 46-24-12 · 104 pts · 7thTwenty-seven points apart last season
NY Rangers finished last season 30th in the league on 77 points. Minnesota finished 7th on 104.
Game-day prices arrive with the afternoon snapshot, about 4:30 PM ET on the day of the game.
Meeting number 40
Across 39 completed games, NY Rangers lead the head-to-head 23-15-1.
Last 5 meetings
See all: Last 5 meetings →The table on each 2025-26 meeting night
League rank after that night's games; a longer bar is a higher place. On 20 Oct 2025, NY Rangers were 17th in the league and Minnesota 16th. By 14 Mar 2026 it was 29th and 5th.
Minnesota out-attempted NY Rangers 158 to 107
Every attempt from the last meetings, both teams shooting right.
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Minnesota Wild
NY Rangers and Minnesota are level on chances, last 10 games
Shot quality both ways: expected goals weigh every unblocked attempt by its chance of scoring. Finishing above zero means more goals than the chances.
This season: 5 games for NY Rangers, 3 for Minnesota. Small sample: early-season xG moves a lot from night to night.
Last 10 games: 10 games for NY Rangers, 10 for Minnesota.
2025-26: 82 games for NY Rangers, 82 for Minnesota.
Power play and penalty kill, season and series
This season's rates first, then 2025-26 and the last meetings between the two. Power-play chances are counted from the penalty log with coincidental minors cancelled; faceoffs are each club's wins over draws taken.
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Each club's top three forwards and defencemen by points this season, with 2025-26 one tap away.
Who has stopped this matchup
Save percentage in the last meetings by goalie. Starters are confirmed on game day.
Expected starter after their game on 21 Jan: a back-to-back depends on who plays that night.
Expected starter after their game on 21 Jan: a back-to-back depends on who plays that night.
NY Rangers crease
NYR · 2026-27 Starter estimate from 20 Jan
No appearances against Minnesota in the last meetings.
Minnesota crease
MIN · 2026-27 Starter estimate from 20 Jan
No appearances against NY Rangers in the last meetings.
Scoring rates point to about 5.8 goals
No total is posted yet: it arrives with the game-day prices. Until then, the scoring rates and the recent meetings set the range.
Goals in the last 5 meetings
Bar length is total goals, coloured by the winner.
Scoring rates
NY Rangers3.201.602.903.05
Minnesota3.001.673.322.93Goals for and against per game. The estimate averages each team’s scoring with the other’s goals allowed, and leans on 2025-26 until a team has played 20 games.
7 on the injury lists
NY Rangers · injuries
Minnesota · injuries
Latest moves
See all: Latest moves →Recalled C Gabriel Beaudoin from Hartford (AHL). Placed C Joe Veleno on injured reserve.
Placed D Matthew Robertson on waivers.
Placed G Joonas Korpisalo on injured reserve. Recalled G Dylan Garand from Hartford (AHL).
Waived for the purpose of assignment to Iowa (AHL) Ds Matt Kiersted, Carson Lambos, and Roman Schmidt and Fs Caedan Bankier, Dylan Gambrell, Justin Kirkland, Tyler Pitlick, and Mason Shaw. Assigned Ds Ben Dexheimer and Viking Gustafsson Nyberg and Fs Jagger Joshua, Hunter Haight, Riley Heidt, Rasmus Kumpulainen, and Rieger Lorenz to Iowa.
Signed G Filip Ruzicka to a three-year, entry-level contract.
Signed D Filip Ruzicka to a three-year contract.
NY Rangers · 2026 draft
See all: NY Rangers · 2026 draft →Minnesota · 2026 draft
See all: Minnesota · 2026 draft →Saturday 23 January · the full slate
See all: Saturday 23 January · the full slate →
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