{"id":302985,"date":"2025-11-14T22:49:09","date_gmt":"2025-11-14T22:49:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/302985\/"},"modified":"2025-11-14T22:49:09","modified_gmt":"2025-11-14T22:49:09","slug":"wild-place-marco-rossi-on-ir-with-lower-body-injury","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/302985\/","title":{"rendered":"Wild Place Marco Rossi On IR With Lower-Body Injury"},"content":{"rendered":"

4:30 p.m.: As expected, the Wild announced<\/a> that Rossi has been placed on the injured reserve with a lower-body injury. Minnesota\u2019s announcement indicated that Rossi would miss the next few weeks.<\/p>\n

9:13 a.m.: Wild top-line pivot Marco Rossi<\/a>\u00a0will miss at least the team\u2019s next few games \u2013 potentially longer \u2013 with a lower-body injury, Michael Russo of The Athletic<\/a> reports Friday. Minnesota will be down to the bare minimum of 12 forwards if he\u2019s not available, and they don\u2019t have an open roster spot. Hence, an injured reserve placement is likely to permit the recall of a forward from AHL Iowa.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s unexpected news after Rossi made his last appearance, an overtime loss to the Sharks on Tuesday, in full without incident. He missed one game in October due to a lower-body issue. Russo reports<\/a> that he\u2019s not fully healed from that injury and will need a more extended break to get back to 100 percent.<\/p>\n

The 24-year-old has remained the centerpiece of Minnesota\u2019s top line this season with\u00a0Kirill Kaprizov<\/a>\u00a0after a tumultuous summer. He was involved in a drawn-out round of contract negotiations after reaching restricted free agency, and early in the summer, it seemed likelier than not that he\u2019d be dealt away. No trade materialized, though, and he returned to the Wild on a three-year, $15MM bridge deal in late August to avoid being a training camp holdout.<\/p>\n

While the Wild didn\u2019t have the best October, Rossi was on a roll. He took the absence of his other routine wingman,\u00a0Mats Zuccarello<\/a>, in stride and rattled off 11 points (two goals, nine assists) through his first 11 games. However, he\u2019s only managed two goals in six games since the calendar turned to November and has just one point in his last five. With Zuccarello now back in the fold and registering two assists through his first three games of the season, he and Kaprizov will be centered by\u00a0Joel Eriksson Ek<\/a>\u00a0for the foreseeable future as Rossi exits the lineup.<\/p>\n

There\u2019s no timeline yet for Rossi\u2019s return, but he\u2019s expected to be out long enough to intensify the Wild\u2019s documented pursuit of a middle-six forward<\/a>. Picking up a depth center if one hits waivers might also be a stopgap possibility to keep veterans Ben Jones<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0Tyler Pitlick<\/a>, neither of whom has recorded a point this season in a combined 15 appearances, out of a regular spot in Rossi\u2019s absence.<\/p>\n

As Russo writes, it\u2019s 2022 first-rounder\u00a0Danila Yurov<\/a>\u00a0who stands with the most to gain while Rossi rehabs. The 21-year-old rookie has just two goals with a -5 rating through his first 13 NHL games, but that\u2019s to be expected given his fourth-line deployment and lack of special teams usage. Yurov has averaged 9:51 of ice time per game and is starting just 36.2% of his even-strength shifts in the offensive zone. He\u2019s spent most of his time centering\u00a0Marcus Foligno<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0Yakov Trenin<\/a>, who\u2019ve combined for no goals and four assists this season. A promotion to top-nine duties is a far more suitable assignment for Yurov\u2019s capabilities and should result in a significant increase in productivity.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"4:30 p.m.: As expected, the Wild announced that Rossi has been placed on the injured reserve with a…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":302986,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[377],"tags":[5,1486,38,30],"class_list":{"0":"post-302985","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-hockey","8":"tag-hockey","9":"tag-marco-rossi","10":"tag-minnesota-wild","11":"tag-newsstand"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nhl\/115550497294760595","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/302985","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=302985"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/302985\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/302986"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=302985"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=302985"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=302985"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}