The Minnesota Wild have added defensemen Jonas Brodin and Brock Faber to their list of key injured players and left them out of the lineup for their game against Colorado. Brodin's status is day to day.

A nearly three-minute shift after already skating half the game sounds exhausting, and getting pelted by the puck on the right skate looked painful. But how did Jonas Brodin feel? Like he was having a ball.

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The Minnesota Wild have added defensemen Jonas Brodin and Brock Faber to their list of key ... The Wild already were missing captain Jared Spurgeon (lower body), who is expected to be out for another week or two after taking a slew foot from Nashville ...

Jonas Brodin will not be in the lineup Thursday when the Minnesota Wild take on the Central Division rival Colorado Avalanche as the veteran defenseman is sidelined with a lower-body injury, per Michael Russo of The Athletic.

He stayed back home in Minnesota with Jonas Brodin and Brock Faber ... In the game in which the Wild were without Kaprizov, Brodin, Faber, Jared Spurgeon, and Jakub Lauko, they let up six ...

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The Minnesota Wild have added defensemen Jonas Brodin and Brock Faber to ... The Wild already were missing captain Jared Spurgeon (lower body), who is expected to be out for another week or ...

They will head into the back-to-back games shorthanded. Kirill Kaprizov will not play in either of them. He stayed back home in Minnesota with Jonas Brodin and Brock Faber. Brodin, 31, was injured, along with Faber, in the Wild's game against the St. Louis Blues on Tuesday. Neither of them joined the team out west.

The 27-14-4 Minnesota Wild are off tonight, getting some much needed rest for a roster that has dealt with injury blow, after injury blow for pretty much the entire season.

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,

Kaprizov has missed the past 10 games with a lower-body injury that has required lots of treatments and pushed-back timetables.