The San Jose Sharks and the Minnesota Wild meet in NHL action from the Xcel Energy Center on Sunday.
The San Jose Sharks will look to build on a 5-4 win over the Dallas Stars last time out. Erik Karlsson has a team-high 21 points with a team-high 10 goals and 11 assists while Timo Meier and Tomas Hertl each have 14 points with Meier split between 7 goals and 7 assists while Hertl has 4 goals and 10 assists this season. Logan Couture also has 11 points with 6 goals and 5 assists this season. James Reimer has gone 3-5-2 with a 2.99 GAA and a .906 save percentage while Kaapo Kahkonen is 1-4-1 with a 3.70 GAA and an .878 save percentage in goal for the Sharks this season.
The Minnesota Wild will hope to build on back-to-back wins after a 1-0 win over Seattle in their last game. Kirill Kaprizov has a team-high 16 points with a team-high 10 goals and 6 assists while Mats Zuccarello has 14 points with 6 goals and a team-high 8 assists. Matt Boldy has 11 points with 6 goals and 5 assists and Joel Eriksson Ek has 10 points with 4 goals and 6 assists. Calen Addison also has 8 assists this season. Marc-Andre Fleury is 6-3-1 with a 2.87 GAA and a .905 save percentage while Filip Gustavsson is 1-3 with a 3.10 GAA and a .904 save percentage this season.
San Jose is 17-37 in their last 54 road games and 3-13 in their last 16 games following a win while the over is 7-0-1 in their last 8 games overall. Minnesota is 54-22 in their last 76 home games and 11-3 in their last 14 games against the Pacific division while the under is 5-0 in their last 5 games overall.
I get the case to be made for either side here, but I’m going to lean towards San Jose +1.5. The Sharks have played in a ton of one goal games lightly, and while that run can’t last forever, we’re getting a great price with a Sharks team that continues to battle left and right no matter how bad they’re struggling in the win loss column. Give me the Sharks +1.5 here.