{"id":392379,"date":"2026-01-05T20:58:21","date_gmt":"2026-01-05T20:58:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/392379\/"},"modified":"2026-01-05T20:58:21","modified_gmt":"2026-01-05T20:58:21","slug":"minnesota-wild-recalls-defenseman-david-jiricek-from-iowa-5","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/392379\/","title":{"rendered":"MINNESOTA WILD RECALLS DEFENSEMAN DAVID JIRICEK FROM IOWA"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tJan 5, 2026<\/p>\n<p paraeid=\"{677f5841-ecba-4ea7-ad9d-045f6065ad3b}{59}\" paraid=\"1818932954\">MINNEAPOLIS, Minn. &#8211;\u00a0Minnesota Wild President of Hockey Operations and General Manager Bill Guerin today announced the National Hockey League (NHL) club has recalled defenseman\u00a0David\u00a0Jiricek\u00a0(YIHR-ih-chehk) from the Iowa Wild of the American Hockey League (AHL).\u00a0<\/p>\n<p lang=\"EN-US\" paraeid=\"{93e430a4-5007-474b-bd67-04718940ebba}{172}\" paraid=\"449209222\" xml:lang=\"EN-US\">Jiricek, 22 (11\/28\/03),\u00a0has skated\u00a0in 18 games with Minnesota this season, registering a plus-1 rating, 12 penalty minutes (PIM) and 11 shots on goal. He has also\u00a0played in\u00a013 games with Iowa, tallying three points (1-2=3) and 35 shots on goal. The 6-foot-4, 204-pound native of\u00a0Klatovy, Czech Republic owns 13 points (2-11=13) in 77 career NHL games with Columbus (2022-24) and Minnesota (2024-26).\u00a0Jiricek\u00a0owns 70 points (16-54=70) and 234 shots on goal in 128 career AHL games with Cleveland (2022-24) and Iowa (2024-26). He was originally selected by Columbus in the first round (sixth overall) of the 2022 NHL Draft.\u00a0Jiricek\u00a0was\u00a0acquired\u00a0by Minnesota in a trade with the Blue Jackets on Nov. 30, 2024, and wears sweater No. 55 with the Wild.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p paraeid=\"{677f5841-ecba-4ea7-ad9d-045f6065ad3b}{183}\" paraid=\"344721219\">Iowa Wild hockey is presented by Kwik Star. For more information on Iowa Wild\u00a0hockey, please visit\u202f<a href=\"http:\/\/www.iowawild.com\/\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">www.iowawild.com<\/a>. Season tickets for 2026-27\u00a0are on sale now. Fans can\u00a0purchase\u00a0season tickets for the upcoming season at\u202f<a href=\"https:\/\/www.iowawild.com\/wild-365\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/www.iowawild.com\/wild-365<\/a>.\u202f\u202f\u00a0<\/p>\n<p paraeid=\"{677f5841-ecba-4ea7-ad9d-045f6065ad3b}{215}\" paraid=\"1879771648\">Visit\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.iowawild.com\/pressbox\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/www.iowawild.com\/pressbox<\/a>\u00a0for the latest news and information from the team including press releases, game notes, multimedia content, and daily statistics.\u202f\u202f\u202f\u00a0<\/p>\n<p paraeid=\"{677f5841-ecba-4ea7-ad9d-045f6065ad3b}{232}\" paraid=\"367722430\">Iowa Wild home games are played at Casey\u2019s Center. Iowa Wild games are now streaming on AHLTV on\u00a0FloHockey. Fans can visit\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/flosports.link\/4dyIrAx\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">FloHockey.tv<\/a>\u00a0now to create a free account, purchase subscriptions for the 2025-26 season, and watch all Iowa Wild games online.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Jan 5, 2026 MINNEAPOLIS, Minn. &#8211;\u00a0Minnesota Wild President of Hockey Operations and General Manager Bill Guerin today announced&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":392380,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5118],"tags":[401,5660,8559,1928,5,8558,11884,161,38,5280,4,43,162],"class_list":["post-392379","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-minnesota-wild","tag-ahl","tag-david","tag-des-moines","tag-entertainment","tag-hockey","tag-iowa","tag-jiricek","tag-minnesota","tag-minnesota-wild","tag-minnesotawild","tag-nhl","tag-sports","tag-wild"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nhl\/115844500985332366","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/392379","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=392379"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/392379\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/392380"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=392379"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=392379"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=392379"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}