BEST LINE: Pinnacle +120

Posted at 1:10 PM EST

OT included. After a rough stretch that saw them lose four in a row, Minnesota bounced back with three consecutive wins. That’s nice but those three wins came against Buffalo, in Dallas where the Stars have one home win in 10 games and finally at home against Winnipeg. For the Jets, that was their final game of a five game trip and it was also an early start after Winnipeg played the previous night in Nashville. Winnipeg was dead tired but rallied from three down to force OT before losing it. None of those last three Wild wins were impressive. Minnesota is 3-5 against top-16-teams and 1-2 against top-10 teams. When they dropped four straight recently, they scored three times over that span. Minnesota has allowed three goals or more in nine of its past 11 games. This is a team that plays solid defensively but has little offense and really poor goaltending. The Flyers have enough snipers to make life miserable for Darcy Kuemper.

Philly lost in New York last night by a score of 2-0 to run its losing streak to three games. That has their stock low, which makes us buyers. What we know for sure is that the Flyers have two of the best lines in the NHL and maybe the best overall line with Claude Giroux, Jakub Voracek and Brayden Schenn. Kuemper is not capable of holding Philadelphia’s top six off the scoreboard. Philly has issues, mainly on defense and inconsistent goaltending but neither has to be great here because Minnesota can run cold offensively for long stretches that last several games at a time. Minnesota’s three wins in succession combined with Philly’s three losses in succession has us taking back an inflated price here and that’s something we usually don’t pass up on. Minnesota is simply very beatable when facing a potent offense and that applies here.