Anaheim Ducks vs Minnesota Wild Prediction: Minnesota continues to fight for a playoff spot

Prediction for the NHL Anaheim Ducks vs Minnesota Wild match which will take place on March 20th. Who will turn out to be stronger? Check the team conditions! Several betting options are available.

Anaheim Ducks

Anaheim is having another disappointing regular season, with no chance of making the playoffs, and the Ducks are not very productive. The young players who were supposed to be the club's future are showing mediocre progress, and nothing is expected from the rest of the hockey players. The Californians have suffered more on the ice all season long than they have played hockey, and in March, they fell apart. They suffered six regulation losses in their last six games by a combined score of 7:31. A disaster! The Black and Orange are only 14th in the Western Conference standings.

Minnesota Wild

The regular season is also very difficult for Minnesota, but the Wild are not considering giving up on the playoffs. On the contrary, after the change of head coach, they have made tangible progress and, therefore, will be chasing the Cup Eight until the very last games. John Hynes' wards have never left the ice without a point in their previous seven games. During this time, they won five victories, and defeats were only from Colorado and St. Louis outside the main time - 2:1 and 2:3. So far, the Wild occupy only tenth place in the Western Conference standings. Still, the gap to the playoffs is only five points.

Expert Betting Tips

Minnesota continues to fight for a playoff spot. The Wild's chances of success were small, but in the last seven games, they scored 12 out of 14 possible points, which allowed them to reduce the gap to the Western Conference Cup Final Eight to five points, so the fight continues. Anaheim is a hopeless outsider of the league, which completely stopped playing at the end of the regular season, and because of this, in the last six games, it did not score a single point. 

Do not expect high-scoring activity from the upcoming confrontation. Minnesota continues to fight for the playoffs, so it is much more important for the Wild to steadily gain points than to play, spoiling the audience with high performance. In their last five games, they had only 19 shots on goal (an average of 3.80 per game), a modest total. Anaheim hasn't needed anything in a long time. They've lost to everyone, scoring only ten goals (1.25 average per game) in the last eight meetings.