That’s a tough photo for Nate Prosser, who took a face-full of backside from Jonathan Toews on Wednesday, just as Marilyn Indahl of USA Today Sports snapped a photo. Good snag by Marilyn, and one that Prosser will surely want to frame and put on the mantle for many years to come.
With the sending down of Alex Tuch and the swapping of Mike Reilly and Gustav Olofsson, I’ve been pondering the Wild’s prospects a bit more recently, and how Chuck Fletcher plans to fit them all in the lineup. At forward, with Tuch, Joel Eriksson Ek, Kirill Kaprizov, Jordan Greenway, and Luke Kunin all theoretically on the way in the next couple of seasons, Fletcher really can’t fit them in right away.