The Minnesota Wild opened camp, and everyone was on the ice except for Luke Kunin. Kunin is still recovering from last season’s knee injury, and will not participate in any of training camp or preseason.
The surprise from day one, was evident when Group A stepped onto the ice for their run of conditioning sprints. Jason Zucker and Eric Staal were on the ice as expected, but I was definitely surprised that it was not Nino Niederreiter joining them on that line. Instead we were given Mikael Granlund as the third forward with this group.