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The Minnesota Wild might be on a seven-game losing streak but tonight's inter-divisional competition is the first in a new era after the team announced yesterday that they had relieved head coach Dean Evason and assistant coach Bob Woods from their positions. Jon Hynes becomes the newest bald man behind the bench as the franchise's seventh head coach. With this final act of desperation, general manager Bill Guerin has thrown his only remaining hail mary for the season, as the team he has built that was expected to easily be in playoff contention is loaded with no-trade clauses and no cap space. None of that matters to the St. Louis Blues who are currently clinging to a wild card position at fourth in the Central Divison after winning three of their last four games, albeit against some weaker opponents.
Forward Freddy Gaudreau, out since a 7-4 victory over Edmonton on Oct. 24, skated for the first time since being sidelined on Sunday, a positive sign for a Wild team still trying to find itself this season. Part of that, of course, has been injuries to key players such as Gaudreau, Matt Boldy, Jared Spurgeon and Alex Goligoski, who have missed games this season a combined 40 times. Spurgeon played his first game of the regular season in a 3-2 loss at Buffalo on Friday, leaving Gaudreau (upper body) and Goligoski (lower body) on the shelf. Both will travel to Sweden for weekend games against Ottawa and Toronto in Stockholm, but only Gaudreau has a chance of playing.
No | Player | P |
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76 | C | |
24 | D | |
12 | LW | |
25 | D | |
26 | C | |
21 | RW | |
14 | C | |
7 | D | |
29 | G | |
17 | LW | |
89 | C | |
33 | D | |
32 | G | |
54 | LW | |
90 | LW | |
97 | LW | |
10 | C | |
20 | LW | |
4 | D | |
5 | D | |
60 | LW | |
23 | C | |
46 | D | |
36 | RW |