Sixteen games into the Minnesota Wild’s season and we may need to do a mea culpa on how excited we were for this team to promote Marco Rossi to a full-time role and how sure we were that he could fill in the void that the departing skilled players left when they moved on last summer.
It is not to say that we were entirely wrong for being enthralled that the 2022 ninth-overall pick was getting his shot to make a mark after doing so damn well in his AHL rookie campaign, but we may need to take a step back and reflect that our expectations might have been too high for the young center.