NHL Game Preview: Minnesota Wild at Dallas Stars with Line Combinations 3/24/2025

Minnesota Wild at Dallas Stars

Venue: American Airlines Center
Date: Monday, March 24
Time: 7:00 pm CST

TV: ESPN+ / FDSNNO / Victory+ / FDSNWIX
Radio:
Minnesota – KFAN 100.3 FM
Dallas – The Ticket 96.7 FM / 1310 AM

DraftKings Sportsbook Betting Lines:
Minnesota +1.5 ML -148
Dallas -1.5 ML +124
O/U 5.5

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Minnesota Wild News & Notes:

Filip Gustavsson won the NHL’s first Star of the Week with a 3-0-0 record and 0.67GAA & .976SV%. The Wild are in the first Wild Card position with 85 points and trail the Central Division third place Avalanche by four points. Thankfully, Minnesota has one game in hand.

Dallas Stars News & Notes:

Dallas continues to search for more from Mikko Rantanen. After playing with the ultra-talented Nathan Mackinnon, Rantanen was over a point-per-game player. Since being traded to Carolina, he’s nearly a 0.5 point-per-game player.

Minnesota Wild Projected Lines:

Nyquist-Rossi-Boldy
Johansson-Gaudreau-Zuccarello
Trenin-Hartman-Hinostroza
Shore-Gaunce-Brazeau

Middleton-Faber
Chisholm-Spurgeon
Merrill-Bogosian

Gustavsson
Fleury

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Dallas Stars Projected Lines:

Robertson-Hintz-Rantanen
Marchment-Duchene-Granlund
Benn-Johnston-Bourque
Back-Steel-Blackwell

Harley-Lyubushkin
Lindell-Ceci
Bichsel-Dumba

Oettinger
DeSmith

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Players To Watch:

Minnesota Wild

Matt Boldy has two goals and five points in the last five games. He also leads the team in points with 60, primarily due to Kirill Kaprizov’s injury issues this season, which have limited him to 37 games played.

Dallas Stars

Wyatt Jonhston has three seasons of 20+ goals and is battling for back-to-back 30 goal seasons. Thomas Harley has three goals in the last five games.

Injury Report:

Minnesota Wild

LW Kirill Kaprizov – Week to week
C Joel Eriksson Ek – Week to week
G Troy Gorsenick – Out for Season
LW Marcus Foligno – Day to day

Dallas Stars

D Miro Heiskanen – IR
C Tyler Seguin – IR
D Nils Lundkvist – IR

Next Game:

Minnesota Wild – March 25 vs. Vegas Golden Knights
Dallas Stars – March 26 at Edmonton Oilers

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