Center Joel Eriksson Ek, one of the team's best forwards, suffered a serious injury in practice on Monday, according to The Athletic 's Michael Russo. He's been placed on injured reserve, which means he has to miss at least the next four games, but Russo says he hears the absence is going to be "a lot longer" than that.
Wild insider Michael Russo reports that Eriksson-Ek was injured in practice this week and will be out of the team's lineup for "a lot longer" than the IR-mandated week long period: That's tough...