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Preview: Wild hope to gain ground vs. Kings

May the farce be with you.

It’s Star Wars Night at The X as the Minnesota Wild host the Los Angeles Kings, and the visiting team is exactly that: A farce.

Among all teams currently in a playoff spot, only the Dallas Stars have a worse goal differential than the Kings. And among all 32 teams, the Kings have the 18th-ranked goals for percentage at 5-on-5 of 49.81 percent — at the most common game state, Los Angeles doesn’t even score the majority of the goals in games they’re involved in (the Wild are ranked fifth in this category).