The Minnesota Wild will travel to Montreal Quebec to face the Montreal Canadiens at the Bell Centre on Tuesday evening at 7:00 PM ET.

Minnesota enters this game with a record of 1-1 following a 4-7 loss on the road against the Toronto Maple Leafs on Saturday. The Wild scored four goals with Matt Boldy, Brandon Duhaime, Ryan Hartman, and Marco Rossi all scoring a goal against the Maple Leafs. Connor Dewar, Marcus Foligno, Kirill Kaprizov, Mats Zuccarello, Calen Addison, Jonas Brodin, Brock Faber, and Jacob Middleton each had an assist in the loss against Toronto. Filip Gustavsson struggled as the starting goalie for the Minnesota Wild with 26 saves off of 33 shots on goal for a .788 save percentage while allowing seven goals. Minnesota is averaging 3 goals per game with a 20% power play success rate while allowing an average of 3.5 goals per game and has a 66.7% penalty kill percentage. Marc-Andre Fleury will be the starting goalie for the Minnesota Wild when they travel to face the Montreal Canadiens on Tuesday after finishing last season with a record of 24-16-4 and a .908 save percentage while allowing an average of 2.85 goals per game.

The Montreal Canadiens enter this game with a record of 1-0-1 following a 3-2 win at home against the Chicago Blackhawks on Saturday. Montreal scored three goals with Cole Caufield, Sean Monahan, and Tanner Pearson accounting for the three goals in the win against Chicago. Josh Anderson, Rafael Harvey-Pinard, Sean Monahan, and Kaiden Guhle each had an assist against the Blackhawks. Sam Montembeault had a great start at goalie for the Montreal Canadiens against the Chicago Blackhawks with 28 saves off of 30 shots on goal with a .933 save percentage while allowing two goals. Montreal is averaging 4 goals per game this season with a 16.7% power play success rate while allowing an average of 4 goals per game with an 81.8% penalty-kill percentage. Sam Montembeault will be the starting goalie for the Montreal Canadiens when they host the Minnesota Wild on Tuesday evening. Montembeault is 1-0 this season with a .933 save percentage and is allowing an average of 2 goals per game.

BookMaker has the Minnesota Wild listed as -143 moneyline favorites on the road against the Montreal Canadiens on Tuesday. Minnesota has won nine of the last ten including the previous five matchups in a row while winning by an average margin of 2.3 goals per game over the last ten and 2.33 goals per game in the last three games in the series.

Montreal has looked solid in their first two games this season, however, they still aren’t as talented as Minnesota in a series in which the Wild has been the dominant team winning nine of the last ten including the last five meetings in a row and have won by an average of 2.33 goals per game over the last three and 2.3 goals per game over the last ten games in the series. I look for those trends to continue on Tuesday when the Minnesota Wild travel to face the Montreal Canadiens which is why I am taking the moneyline for the Minnesota Wild at -143 on Tuesday evening.