Minnesota Wild vs Pittsburgh Penguins Prediction: Expect a Total Over

Prediction for the NHL match which will take place on February 10. Who will turn out to be stronger? Check the team conditions! Several betting options are available.

Minnesota Wild

Minnesota is a regular participant in cup battles of recent years, but in the current regular season there were serious problems with the solution of this task. Especially weak they played in the opening of the season, because of which Dean Evason was sent into retirement. Instead of him, the club management appointed John Hines, under whose leadership not immediately, but the results still started to improve. In the last seven games before the All-Star break, they had four wins and three losses, and the day before they came off a week and a half break and beat Chicago 2:1. So far, the team from St. Paul is only on the 13th line in the Western Conference standings.

Pittsburgh Penguins

For Pittsburgh, the current regular season is expected to be very difficult, but with experience and skill, the Penguins are still making another attempt to climb into the playoff zone. So far, the entire season has followed the same pattern: a number of successful games get them close to the coveted top eight, but then a string of bad luck follows, which puts the Penguins back in the league's underdog group. Before the All-Star break, the Black-and-Yellows beat Montreal 3:2, and after the break they beat Winnipeg 3:0. Two consecutive wins allowed the team to move up to tenth place in the Eastern Conference standings.

Expert Betting Tips

Minnesota and Pittsburgh are two teams that have accustomed us to their participation in cup battles, but in the current regular season they are not performing the best, being located outside the playoff zone. The Penguins are in a much better position, as they are a couple of lines away from the Cup Final Eight, and they have a few games in hand over their direct competitors. The Wild are in a much more difficult situation, they are only in 13th place in the Western Conference, so not only do they need to pick up points, but they also need to expect misfires from their opponents.

The confrontation between Minnesota and Pittsburgh in recent years is characterised by very solid goalscoring activity. In the previous seven head-to-head meetings, the teams have combined to score 59 pucks (8.43 per game on average). Pennsylvanians were especially successful in finishing offence, with 36 goals (5.14 average per game).