Florida Panthers at Minnesota Wild: game preview
FloridaPanthers2026-27: 2-0-2 · 6 pts · 2025-26: 40-38-4 · 84 pts · 25that
MinnesotaWild2026-27: 2-0-1 · 5 pts · 2025-26: 46-24-12 · 104 pts · 7thTwenty points apart last season
Florida finished last season 25th in the league on 84 points. Minnesota finished 7th on 104, and the 2025-26 season series went FLA 1-1-0.
Game-day prices arrive with the afternoon snapshot, about 4:30 PM ET on the day of the game.
Meeting number 39
Across 38 completed games, Minnesota lead the head-to-head 22-11-5.
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 24 Jan 2026, Florida were 15th in the league and Minnesota 5th. By 26 Mar 2026 it was 25th and 6th.
Florida out-attempted Minnesota 320 to 266
Every attempt from the last meetings, both teams shooting right.
Florida Panthers
Minnesota Wild
Florida 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: 4 games for Florida, 3 for Minnesota. Small sample: early-season xG moves a lot from night to night.
Last 10 games: 10 games for Florida, 10 for Minnesota.
2025-26: 82 games for Florida, 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.
All bars share one scale · 0–100%SeasonLast meetings
Florida
Small sampleMinnesota
Small sampleAaron Ekblad has 9 points in the last 5 meetings
Each club's top three forwards and defencemen by points this season, with 2025-26 one tap away, then who has produced in the last meetings.
Aaron Ekblad vs Minnesota · game by game
See all: Aaron Ekblad vs Minnesota · game by game →Filip Gustavsson has started most of these meetings
Filip Gustavsson played 3 of the last 5 meetings with Florida, with a .904 save percentage. Starters are confirmed on game day.
Florida crease
FLA · 2026-27 Starter estimate from 11 Jan
No appearances against Minnesota in the last meetings.
Filip Gustavsson
See all: Filip Gustavsson →MIN · 28-15-6 in 2025-26 Starter estimate from 11 Jan
Also on the roster, 2026-27: Jesper Wallstedt .933 (3 GP)
Full game logScoring rates point to about 6.0 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
Florida2.002.003.063.37
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.
8 on the injury lists
Florida · injuries
Minnesota · injuries
Latest moves
See all: Latest moves →Placed C Aleksander Barkov on long-term injured reserve. Called up D Alexander Petrovic from Charlotte (AHL).
Placed C Aleksander Barkov on long-term injured reserve.
Placed RW/C Cole Schwindt, RD Alexander Petrovic, LD Donovan Sebrango, LW Kai Schwindt, LW Cole Reinhardt, RW Sam Lafferty and C/LW John Beecher on waivers. Agreed to terms with RW Nathan Bastian on a 1-year, two-way contract.
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.
Florida · 2026 draft
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