With Marcus Foligno breaking his face, Nino Niederreiter spraining the “high part” of his ankle, and Charlie Coyle heading to LTIR with a broken leg, the injury bug has appeared more like a tick and is digging into the Minnesota roster.
Zach Parise was on the ice for practice Monday, but left early after a drill for what was being called a “setback;” a terrible, unintentional pun for the left-winger that has 124 goals for the Wild.
Boudreau is probably having nightmares about putting pencil to paper and making scratches to his roster.