Odds, picks, finest wager for NHL conflict on Monday night time

The Rangers return house from a two-game street journey with their sights set on scoring their first objective and even perhaps incomes their first win of the season at Madison Sq. Backyard.

The Blueshirts made historical past by getting blanked of their first three house video games of the brand new marketing campaign.

The scoring woes continued on the street in opposition to Toronto, however the Blueshirts discovered some rhythm in a 4-3 win over Montreal on Saturday.

The Rangers will hope to proceed that kind as a slight favourite in opposition to the Minnesota Wild on Monday night.

Rangers vs. Wild odds, prediction

The Wild are off to an attention-grabbing begin this season.

Minnesota went 2-1 in its first three video games, scoring 12 objectives (not together with the one awarded for successful the shootout) alongside the best way.

The Wild boast some talismanic offensive gamers, however no person anticipated Minnesota to maintain up that scoring tempo for the lengthy haul. What stood out greater than something was that, even through the Wild’s sizzling begin, they have been getting most of their manufacturing on the ability play.

Minnesota went 8-for-17 in its first three video games of the season.

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As soon as the ability play got here all the way down to earth, Minnesota could be in bother. The Wild completed twenty fifth within the league in objectives per sport in 2024-25, and the roster hasn’t modified a lot from April to October.

Regression got here rapidly. The Wild scored a complete of 4 objectives over their subsequent three contests, going 0-2-1 in opposition to the Stars, Capitals, and Flyers.

Minnesota now heads to Madison Sq. Backyard in opposition to the Rangers, who’re due for some regression the opposite approach.

There are causes to be involved about how the Blueshirts have began the season, however they need to be buoyed by the best way they performed — and completed — in Montreal.

Extra of that on Monday night time needs to be an excessive amount of for the Wild.

Not solely is Minnesota not discovering the online a lot at 5-on-5, however it additionally ranks close to the underside of the NHL in producing scoring probabilities.

That’s not a recipe for achievement in opposition to Igor Shesterkin and the Rangers.

The Play: Rangers -130 (FanDuel)

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