{"id":378788,"date":"2025-12-29T05:39:09","date_gmt":"2025-12-29T05:39:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/378788\/"},"modified":"2025-12-29T05:39:09","modified_gmt":"2025-12-29T05:39:09","slug":"west-notes-jiricek-morrissey-pospisil","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/378788\/","title":{"rendered":"West Notes: Jiricek, Morrissey, Pospisil"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Minnesota Wild have made a change to their defensive core ahead of tomorrow\u2019s matchup against the Vegas Golden Knights. The Wild <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/mnwildPR\/status\/2005322858046640457?s=20\" rel=\"nofollow\">announced<\/a> that they\u2019ve reassigned defenseman <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hockey-reference.com\/players\/j\/jiricda01.html?utm_medium=linker&amp;utm_source=www.prohockeyrumors.com&amp;utm_campaign=2025-12-28_hr\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">David Ji\u0159\u00ed\u010dek<\/a> to the AHL\u2019s Iowa Wild.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s the third time the former sixth overall pick has been demoted this season. Ji\u0159\u00ed\u010dek, 22, has played in 18 games for the Wild this season in a depth role, going scoreless while averaging 12:08 of ice time per game. He\u2019s fared somewhat better with AHL Iowa, scoring one goal and three points in 10 games with a -6 rating.<\/p>\n<p>Still, his demotion may come with some good news. Yesterday, <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.prohockeyrumors.com\/2025\/12\/central-notes-hartman-hunt-lyubushkin-fuder.html\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Michael Russo of The Athletic suggested<\/a> that defenseman <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hockey-reference.com\/players\/h\/huntda01.html?utm_medium=linker&amp;utm_source=www.prohockeyrumors.com&amp;utm_campaign=2025-12-28_hr\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Daemon Hunt<\/a>, who\u2019s been rehabbing an undisclosed injury for the last few weeks, is expected to rejoin the team at some point during their current road trip. Regardless, Minnesota still has seven healthy defensemen on the active roster.<\/p>\n<p>Other notes from the Western Conference:<\/p>\n<p>The Winnipeg Jets are dealing with some injury concerns to a significant player from last night\u2019s loss to the Wild. <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/MitchellClinton\/status\/2005357515933192297?s=20\" rel=\"nofollow\">According to analyst Mitchell Clinton<\/a>, defenseman <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hockey-reference.com\/players\/m\/morrijo04.html?utm_medium=linker&amp;utm_source=www.prohockeyrumors.com&amp;utm_campaign=2025-12-28_hr\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Josh Morrissey<\/a> is considered day-to-day after taking a high hit last night. The Jets\u2019 next game is tomorrow against the Edmonton Oilers, and Morrissey\u2019s status for that contest is very much in question.<br \/>\nA recent 20-assist forward may return to the Calgary Flames relatively soon. Earlier today, <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/WesGilbertson\/status\/2005334151323689298?s=20\" rel=\"nofollow\">Wes Gilberton of Postmedia reported<\/a> that <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hockey-reference.com\/players\/p\/pospima01.html?utm_medium=linker&amp;utm_source=www.prohockeyrumors.com&amp;utm_campaign=2025-12-28_hr\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Martin Pospisil<\/a> has resumed skating and is hoping to return shortly after the new year. Pospisil, who scored four goals and 25 points in 81 games for the Flames last season, has yet to play this year after suffering an undisclosed injury during preseason action.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Minnesota Wild have made a change to their defensive core ahead of tomorrow\u2019s matchup against the Vegas&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":378789,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[377],"tags":[26,796,5,402,2081,5843,38,405,18],"class_list":{"0":"post-378788","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-hockey","8":"tag-calgary-flames","9":"tag-david-jiricek","10":"tag-hockey","11":"tag-injury","12":"tag-josh-morrissey","13":"tag-martin-pospisil","14":"tag-minnesota-wild","15":"tag-transactions","16":"tag-winnipeg-jets"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nhl\/115801252163918881","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/378788","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=378788"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/378788\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/378789"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=378788"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=378788"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=378788"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}