Drafted by the Minnesota Wild in the first round (20th overall) of the 2015 NHL Entry Draft, it’s fair to say that he was under a certain degree of pressure to live up to his first-round pedigree. So far this season though, Joel Eriksson Ek has struggled mightily to find his game; in fact, we called for him to spend time with the Iowa Wild a while back.
Already this year, we’ve seen that the young guys on the Minnesota Wild roster aren’t all necessarily finding the transition to night-in, night-out NHL hockey an easy one.