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Tonight the Minnesota Wild will try to keep their flickering playoff hopes alive against a Nashville Predators team trying to maximize its own postseason hopes in its regular season finale. (AI Wire Images)

Minnesota has alternated wins and losses over its last 12 games dating to March 17.

The Predators kept their postseason chances alive with Thursday night's 4-3 shootout victory in Detroit. Jason Arnott and J.P. Dumont helped Nashville overcome a two-goal deficit in the third period, with Dumont netting the tying score with 59 seconds left in regulation. Get your NHL odds in the Bodog Sportsbook!

Marian Gaborik, who set career marks with 42 goals and 83 points last season, has scored in five straight games, and has eight goals and five assists since his return March 22.

In Nashville's last two meetings with the Wild, Pekka Rinne and Dan Ellis recorded shutouts, but the Predators are 2-7-1 with two ties in Minnesota since Jan. 4, 2002.