Seattle Kraken vs Minnesota Wild NHL Picks, Odds, Predictions 11/13/2021

The Minnesota Wild and the Seattle Kraken meet in NHL action from Climate Pledge Arena on Saturday night.

The Minnesota Wild will look to rebound from a 3-2 loss at the hands of Vegas in their last game. Kirill Kaprizov leads the Wild with 11 points including a team-high 8 assists while Marcus Foligno, Mats Zuccarello and Matt Dumba all have 9 points with Foligno logging 5 goals and 4 assists while Dumba has 7 assists and Zuccarello has 6 helpers on the year. Ryan Hartman leads the Wild with 7 goals as well as a team-best +8 plus/minus rating as well this season. Cam Talbot’s started the bulk of the action in goal for Minnesota, going 7-3 with a 2.88 GAA and a .905 save percentage this season.

The Seattle Kraken will look to bounce back from a 7-4 loss at the hands of the Anaheim Ducks last time out. Jordan Eberle leads the Kraken with 11 points including a team-high 8 goals while Jaden Schwartz has 10 points with 3 goals and 7 assists on the year. Alex Wennberg leads the Kraken in the assists department with 8 assists as part of his 9 points and Jared McCann also has 9 points with 5 goals and 4 apples. Philipp Grubauer’s started the bulk of Seattle’s action in goal, going 4-6-1 with an .882 save percentage and a 3.18 GAA this season.

Minnesota is 4-1 in their last 5 games overall and 7-2 in their last 9 Saturday games while the under is 6-1 in their last 7 games as a road favorite. Seattle is 1-5 in their last 6 games overall and 0-4 in their last 4 games against the Western Conference while the over is 5-0 in their last 5 games overall.

I get the allure of a cheap price with a team like Seattle as the novelty of home ice is still strong with the Kraken, but the Wild have simply been the better team up to this point and I’m just not at a point where I feel comfortable backing the Kraken, even at home. I’ll side with the better team and that’s Minnesota with the cheap price.