NHL Game Preview: Florida Panthers at Minnesota Wild with Line Combinations 12/18/2024

Ryan Hartman wearing a green Minnesota Wild jersey on the ice
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Florida Panthers (19-8-3, 41 pts) at Minnesota Wild (20-6-4, 44 pts)
Venue: Xcel Energy Center
Date: Wednesday, December 18
Time: 9:30 ET / 8:30 pm CT

TV: TNT / TruT / MAX / FDSN
Radio:
Florida Panthers – AM 560 Sports WQAM / 1230 WBZT / WCTH-FM 100.3
Minnesota Wild- KFAN 100.3 FM

DraftKings Sportsbook Betting Lines:
Florida Panthers -1.5 ML +185
Minnesota +1.5 ML -225
O/U 5.5

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Florida Panthers News & Notes

After being shutout in back-to-back games against the Canucks and Flames the Panthers bounced back in their Stanley Cup Finals rematch against the Oilers with a 6-5 victory. Florida is tied for first in the Atlantic Division and are 10-6-1 away from home. Florida has committed 135 penalties this season which is the second most in the NHL. The Panthers are 7-2-1 in their last ten games.

Minnesota Wild News & Notes

Minnesota has alternated wins and losses over their last five games, and is 8-5-1 at home this season. The Wild are second in the Central Division three points behind division leading Winnipeg. Minnesota is 7-3-0 in their last ten games and is 18-1-2 when scoring three or more goals. The Wild have a +18 goal differential this season.

Florida Panthers Projected Lines: 

Luostarinen-Lundell-Reinhart

Verhaeghe-Bennett-Tkachuk

Rodrigues-Boqvist-Samoskevich

Greer-Nosek-Gadjovich

Forsling-Ekblad

Mikkola-Kulikov

Balinskis-Schmidt

Bobrovsky

Knight

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Minnesota Wild Projected Lines:

Kaprizov-Rossi-Zuccarello

Johansson-Hartman-Boldy

Foligno-Gaudreau-Jones

Gaunce-Khusnutdinov-Shore

Brodin-Faber

Chisholm-Spurgeon

Merrill-Bogosian

Fleury

Wallstedt

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Players To Watch

Florida Panthers

San Reinhart had a goal and an assist in the Panthers victory over the Oilers in Edmonton on Monday night. The 29-year-old Vancouver, BC native leads the Florida in scoring with 41 points (20g, 21a) in 32 games played. The rugged center is on pace for a 105 point season which would eclipse his career high in points (94) he set a year ago.

Minnesota Wild

Karil Kaprizov has 47 points this season which is second in the NHL in scoring. The 5-foot-10 winger trails only Nathan MacKinnon who has 50 points. Kaprizov has two goals in back-to-back games and leads the Wild with 22 goals on the season. Kaprizov has seven goals in seven games in December and nine points this month.

Injury Report

Florida Panthers

F Aleksander Barkov – DTD

Minnesota Wild

G Filip Gustavsson – OUT
C Joel Eriksson Ek – IR
C Jakob Lauko – IR
D Jake Middleton – LTIR

Next game:

Florida Panthers – December 20 at St. Louis Blues
Minnesota Wild– December 20 vs. Utah Hockey Club

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