Minnesota Wild at Anaheim Ducks: game preview
MinnesotaWild2026-27: 2-0-1 · 5 pts · 2025-26: 46-24-12 · 104 pts · 7that
AnaheimDucks2026-27: 2-0-0 · 4 pts · 2025-26: 43-33-6 · 92 pts · 18thTwelve points apart last season
Minnesota finished last season 7th in the league on 104 points. Anaheim finished 18th on 92.
Game-day prices arrive with the afternoon snapshot, about 4:30 PM ET on the day of the game.
Meeting number 105
Across 104 completed games, Minnesota lead the head-to-head 55-41-8.
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 15 Nov 2025, Minnesota were 23rd in the league and Anaheim 7th. By 14 Apr 2026 it was 7th and 19th.
Anaheim out-attempted Minnesota 196 to 188
Every attempt from the last meetings, both teams shooting right.
Minnesota Wild
Anaheim Ducks
Anaheim 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 Minnesota, 2 for Anaheim. Small sample: early-season xG moves a lot from night to night.
Last 10 games: 10 games for Minnesota, 10 for Anaheim.
2025-26: 82 games for Minnesota, 87 for Anaheim.
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
Minnesota
Small sampleAnaheim
Small sampleSkaters to watch
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.
Minnesota crease
MIN · 2026-27 Starter estimate from 2 Jan
No appearances against Anaheim in the last meetings.
Anaheim crease
ANA · 2026-27 Starter estimate from 2 Jan
No appearances against Minnesota in the last meetings.
Scoring rates point to about 6.4 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
Minnesota3.001.673.322.93
Anaheim3.502.503.333.51Goals 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.
6 on the injury lists
Minnesota · injuries
Anaheim · injuries
Latest moves
See all: Latest moves →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.
Signed D Tristan Luneau to a six-year contract extension.
Reassigned C Roger McQueen and C Cruz Lucius to San Diego (AHL). Recalled D Noah Warren, D Ian Mitchell and D Tristan Luneau from San Diego. Placed D Drew Helleson on injured reserve. Moved RW Troy Terry from the non-roster list to long-term injured reserve.
Placed G Laurent Brossoit and D Travis Mitchell on waivers.
Minnesota · 2026 draft
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