Not since the preseason have the Wild had a practice as crowded as the session they held Friday at Tria Rink in St. Paul. “Felt nice,” alternate captain Marcus Foligno said. “Got a bit of a break.” But when it came time to leave for a road trip to Nashville and Colorado,

After L'Heureux slew-footed Jared Spurgeon, sidelining the Wild captain, payback was expected in the rematch — and it came early.

"It's fun to be playing those situations when it's on the line," Jonas Brodin said. "That's what you dream about when you're a kid."

This isn’t the first time the Wild have been decimated by injuries. Remember when Jonas Brodin, Joel Eriksson Ek and Mats Zuccarello got hurt within days of each other in mid-November? Then last month,