Both the Minnesota Wild and Nashville Predators are riding three-game winning streaks
The Preds will be loo­king to both give a boost to their own pla­yoff chan­ces and damage those of the Min­ne­sota Wild when the teams meet tonight at Brid­ges­tone Arena.

Nash­vi­lle enters the con­test in seventh place in the Wes­tern Con­fe­rence stan­dings, and the Pre­da­tors are only two points back of sixth-place Los Ange­les and three points behind fifth-place Colorado.

Denis Grebeshkov is still out indefinitely.

Minnesota will be looking to take their fourth consecutive win, but will miss Hnidy(defender), Nicklas Bäckström(1st goalie) and Derek Boogaard(Left Wing) for tonight’s game. Bouchard, Burns and Stoner are out since earlier.

That means Josh Harding(GAA 2.78, 91.1 save pct.) will go against Pekka Rinne(GAA 2.73, 90.4 save pct.) between the pipes. 55-45 Rinne.

I’ll give the Preds 49-50% winning chance here.