The Minnesota Wild will again be without two vital cogs when they host San Jose tonight at Xcel, per head coach Mike Yeo:
Jonas Brodin and Erik Haula, following injuries suffered Monday in NYC, won’t play tonight, but are feeling better, Yeo tells KFXN. #mnwild
— Chad Graff (@ChadGraff) October 30, 2014
Brodin was hurt after getting boarded by Chris Kreider, who was tossed from Monday’s game in New York; Haula was hurt on a headshot from Rangers defenseman John Moore, who was also ejected and later received a five-game suspension.
The losses are significant. Brodin was averaging nearly 24 minutes a night on the Wild blueline — second only to NHL minutes leader Ryan Suter — while Haula is one of the club’s fastest skaters and plays an important depth forward role (averaging 12:15 TOI per game).
Despite those losses, the Wild did well in their first game without the pair on Tuesday in Boston. Minnesota scored three goals in the third period to steal a 4-3 win; defenseman Marco Scandella, who saw his ice time upped to 23:35 without Brodin in the lineup, scored the game-winner with less than six minutes remaining.
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- slickvb82 - Oct 30, 2014 at 10:53 AM
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Should have kept Brodin out of the rest of the Rangers game, maybe the NHL would have viewed the Kreider hit differently. We all know its based on a player being injured and missing time or not.
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- guitarisgood4u - Oct 30, 2014 at 11:15 AM
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I can see keeping his out based on concerns for his health, but not to convince the league to suspend a player.
Especially not a player from a team out of our conference that has their next two games against division rivals Winnipeg and St. Louis, eh?
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- kopy - Oct 30, 2014 at 11:13 AM
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Thanks, Rangers! Talented goon squad you have there in New York.
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- lordfletcher - Oct 30, 2014 at 11:27 AM
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You can’t be serious … Two actions doesn’t qualify the team. No different than us having Cooke (who has changed to some degree)… But come on here… Let it go guys
-Wild fan
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- purplove1 - Oct 30, 2014 at 11:31 AM
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Let’s just chalk this up to untimely coinincidence, the the Rangers were taking liberties, has nothing to do that Minnesota can’t score on the power play.
The only way to make this stop, score on the power play!!!!!
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