The Philadelphia Flyers will travel to St. Paul, Minnesota to face the Minnesota Wild at the Xcel Energy Center on Friday with the puck scheduled to drop at 8:00 PM ET and will air on Bally Sports Wisconsin.

Philadelphia has been one of the best teams in the Eastern Conference this season as they enter this game in 3^rd place in the Metropolitan Division with a record of 21-14-6 and 48 points which also gives them the 6^th best record in the conference following a 3-2 shootout win at home against the Montreal Canadiens on Wednesday. The success for the Flyers this season can be attributed to their defensive play and goalies as they enter this matchup allowing the 8^th fewest goals per game and have the 2^nd best penalty-kill percentage in the league as they are allowing an average of 2.83 goals per game and have an 86.15% penalty-kill percentage. 

Carter Hart has been one of the best goalies in the league this season as he enters this game with a .911 save percentage and is allowing an average of 2.69 goals per game. However, the Flyers have been one of the lowest-scoring teams in the NHL as they are averaging 2.93 goals per game which ranks 25^th, and have the 2^nd worst power-play success rate at 100.77%. The Philadelphia Flyers will look to build off the momentum following the win against the Canadiens when they travel to face the Minnesota Wild.

The Minnesota Wild have been one of the worst teams in the Western Conference as they enter this game with a record of 17-19-4 and 38 points which puts them in 7^th place in the Central Division and gives them the 4^th worst record in the conference while having lost six of their last seven games and are on a two-game losing streak following a 2-7 loss on the road against the Dallas Stars on Wednesday. Minnesota has been a below-average team defensively as they rank 20^th in goals allowed per game and have the 3^rd worst penalty-kill percentage with an average of 3.26 goals allowed per game and a penalty-kill percentage of 72.39%. 

Offensively, the Wild haven’t been any better as they are averaging 2.97 goals per game which ranks 24^th and rank 21^st in power-play success rate with a success rate of 18.18%. Kirill Kaprizov has been one of the better players on the team as he leads the team in points with 34. The Minnesota Wild will look to end their two-game losing streak when they host the Philadelphia Flyers on Friday.

BookMaker has the Minnesota Wild listed as -125 moneyline favorites at home against the Philadelphia Flyers on Friday. Minnesota is 6-3-1 in the last ten while Philadelphia is 2-0-1 in the last three meetings. The Wild have won by an average margin of .3 goals per game over the last ten while the Flyers have won by an average margin of 1.33 goals per game over the last three games in the series.

Philadelphia enters this game with the better record and has been the better team most recently in the series, going 2-0-1 in the last three matchups. The Flyers have won by an average margin of 1.33 goals per game over the last three games in the series which is why I am taking the moneyline for the Philadelphia Flyers at +105 when they travel to face the Minnesota Wild on Friday.