It was a rollercoaster weekend for the Minnesota Wild, as the top team in the Central Division played two of the best teams in the league in back-to-back fashion, dropping a pair of high scoring affairs to Florida and Tampa Bay.
And as the Wild get set to face the New Jersey Devils for the first time since the 2019-20 season, many challenges loom in the Minnesota locker room.
The Wild lost captain Jared Spurgeon to a lower-body injury in Saturday’s loss to Florida and will again be without the defenseman today.