Minnesota Wild at Nashville Predators

MIN controlled play at 5v5 last season, 51.2% of the expected goals to 47.7%; MIN's power play ran at 24.3% against a NSH kill at 81.7%.

In goal, neither team has named a starter. Last season Filip Gustavsson (MIN) saved -9.1 goals above expected to Juuse Saros's -28.0, on save percentages of 0.904 and 0.894.

None of that is the model read. This is a rating-and-home-ice forecast; the full prediction — confirmed goalies, rest and form, priced against the market — publishes inside the seven days before puck drop and replaces these numbers. Minnesota Wild over Nashville Predators is where it starts, not where it ends.

Best posted price per side across 4 books, taken Sep 17. The percentages beside them are what those prices imply with the book’s margin removed.

Total 6.5 · over +110 at Bovada · under -130 at Bovada. No lean either way: the preseason forecast has no goal model, so the model’s total publishes with the slate.

This is a rating forecast against a posted price, not a bet. No stake is sized and nothing here enters the graded ledger. The full model read publishes inside seven days of puck drop and replaces these numbers.

No starter is named this far out. These are each side’s projected starters on the current roster, with last season’s numbers.

MIN

Filip Gustavsson

SV%

0.904

GSAx

-9.1

GAA

2.69

Record

28-15-6

50 games, 2025-26

NSH

Juuse Saros

SV%

0.894

GSAx

-28.0

GAA

3.16

Record

28-22-8

59 games, 2025-26