Nashville Predators at Minnesota Wild: game preview
NashvillePredators2026-27: 1-1-1 · 3 pts · 2025-26: 38-34-10 · 86 pts · 23rdat
MinnesotaWild2026-27: 2-0-1 · 5 pts · 2025-26: 46-24-12 · 104 pts · 7thEighteen points apart last season
Nashville finished last season 23rd in the league on 86 points. Minnesota finished 7th on 104, and the 2025-26 season series went NSH 2-0-2.
Game-day prices arrive with the afternoon snapshot, about 4:30 PM ET on the day of the game.
Meeting number 102
Across 101 completed games, Nashville lead the head-to-head 54-31-15.
Last 5 meetings
See all: Last 5 meetings →The table on each meeting night
League rank after that night's games; a longer bar is a higher place. On 4 Nov 2025, Nashville were 25th in the league and Minnesota 29th. By 1 Oct it was 27th and 10th.
Minnesota out-attempted Nashville 309 to 286
Every attempt from the last meetings, both teams shooting right.
Nashville Predators
Minnesota Wild
Minnesota have created the better 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: 3 games for Nashville, 3 for Minnesota. Small sample: early-season xG moves a lot from night to night.
Last 10 games: 10 games for Nashville, 10 for Minnesota.
2025-26: 82 games for Nashville, 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
Nashville
Small sampleMinnesota
Small sampleSteven Stamkos 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.
Steven Stamkos vs Minnesota · game by game
See all: Steven Stamkos vs Minnesota · game by game →Filip Gustavsson has started most of these meetings
Filip Gustavsson played 3 of the last 5 meetings with Nashville, with a .898 save percentage. Starters are confirmed on game day.
Juuse Saros
See all: Juuse Saros →NSH · 1-1-1 in 2026-27 Starter estimate from 6 Jan
Filip Gustavsson
See all: Filip Gustavsson →MIN · 28-15-6 in 2025-26 Starter estimate from 6 Jan
Also on the roster, 2026-27: Jesper Wallstedt .933 (3 GP)
Full game logScoring rates point to about 6.1 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
Nashville2.333.003.013.28
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.
4 on the injury lists
Nashville · injuries
Minnesota · injuries
Latest moves
See all: Latest moves →Recalled G Matt Murray from Milwaukee (AHL). Placed G Justus Annunen on injured reserve.
Recalled LW Yegor Pinchuk from Milwaukee (AHL). Assigned G Matt Murray to Milwaukee.
Recalled G Matthew Murray from Milwaukee (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.
Nashville · 2026 draft
See all: Nashville · 2026 draft →Minnesota · 2026 draft
See all: Minnesota · 2026 draft →Saturday 9 January · the full slate
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