The Minnesota Wild just won a game for the first time since Dec. 9. Hooray!
The Wild have also lost their best player to a very dumb play and they might be gone for a while. Shit!
Minnesota is heading into their own quasi injury crisis with a mixed bag of players that are probably not going to see any ice for the next week or so.
Let’s start with the big guns. After a stupid and targeted, and very deliberate hit from Boston Bruins player Trent Frederic (according to head coach Dean Evason), Kirill Kaprizov is set to miss an undetermined slate of time with an upper-body injury.