{"id":456187,"date":"2026-02-12T23:52:31","date_gmt":"2026-02-12T23:52:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/456187\/"},"modified":"2026-02-12T23:52:31","modified_gmt":"2026-02-12T23:52:31","slug":"iowa-wild-recalls-leskovar-and-rousseau-from-heartlanders","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/456187\/","title":{"rendered":"IOWA WILD RECALLS LESKOVAR AND ROUSSEAU FROM HEARTLANDERS"},"content":{"rendered":"

\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tFeb 12, 2026<\/p>\n

DES MOINES, Iowa \u2013\u00a0Iowa Wild General Manager Matt Hendricks today announced the American Hockey League (AHL) club has recalled\u00a0defenseman Stevie Leskovar\u00a0and goaltender\u00a0William Rousseau\u00a0from the Iowa\u00a0Heartlanders\u00a0of the ECHL.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n

Leskovar, 21 (9\/9\/04),\u00a0has skated\u00a0in three games with the\u00a0Wild\u00a0in 2025-26\u00a0and recorded\u00a0four points (2-2=4), 35 penalty minutes (PIM), and a minus-10 rating in 24 games with the\u00a0Heartlanders\u00a0this season.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Prior to his professional career, Leskovar recorded six points (1-5=6), 76\u00a0PIM, and a plus-6 rating in 35 games with the Brampton Steelheads (OHL) in 2024-25. The 6-foot-3, 216-pound Cambridge, Ontario native accumulated 21 points (4-17=21), 243 PIM, and a plus-6 rating across 160 OHL games with the Peterborough\u00a0Petes\u00a0(2021-23), Mississauga Steelheads (2022-24), and Brampton (2024-25). Leskovar served as Brampton\u2019s alternate captain during the 2024-25 season.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n

Leskovar was selected in the sixth round (#174 overall) in the 2024 NHL Draft by the Minnesota Wild. He wears sweater No. 44 with the Iowa Wild.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Rousseau, 23\u00a0(1\/9\/2003) has posted a\u00a00-1-0\u00a0record with a 3.43 goals-against average (GAA) and a .905\u00a0save percentage (SV%) in\u00a0two\u00a0games with the\u00a0Wild\u00a0this season. Rousseau\u00a0also\u00a0recorded a 1-1-1 record with a 2.38 GAA and a .921 SV%\u00a0with the Iowa Wild in 2024-25. The Trois-Rivi\u00e8res,\u00a0Qu\u00e9bec\u00a0native\u00a0owns a 22-19-8 record and two shutouts with a .903 SV% and a 2.98 GAA in 51 games across two seasons with the\u00a0Heartlanders\u00a0(2024-26).\u00a0<\/p>\n

Prior to his professional career, Rousseau played\u00a0137 games across four seasons in the QMJHL with the\u00a0Qu\u00e9bec\u00a0Remparts (2020-23) and the Rouyn-Noranda Huskies (2023-24), where he accumulated a record of 95-26-3 with a 2.35 GAA and a .910 SV%. Rousseau also appeared in 36 playoff games in his final three junior seasons and posted a record of 26-10-0 with a 2.43 GAA and a .911 SV%.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n

Rousseau wears sweater No. 35 with the Iowa Wild.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Iowa Wild hockey is presented by Kwik Star. For more information on Iowa Wild\u00a0hockey, please\u00a0visit\u202fwww.iowawild.com<\/a>. Season tickets for 2026-27\u00a0are on sale now. Fans can\u00a0purchase\u00a0season tickets for the upcoming season at\u202fhttps:\/\/www.iowawild.com\/wild-365<\/a>.\u202f\u202f\u00a0<\/p>\n

Visit\u00a0http:\/\/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

Iowa Wild home games are played at Casey\u2019s Center. Iowa Wild games are now streaming on AHLTV on\u00a0FloHockey. Fans can visit\u00a0FloHockey.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":"Feb 12, 2026 DES MOINES, Iowa \u2013\u00a0Iowa Wild General Manager Matt Hendricks today announced the American Hockey League…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":456188,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5118],"tags":[401,8559,1928,5,8558,43218,161,38,5280,4,55390,43,43217,162,11519],"class_list":{"0":"post-456187","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-minnesota-wild","8":"tag-ahl","9":"tag-des-moines","10":"tag-entertainment","11":"tag-hockey","12":"tag-iowa","13":"tag-leskovar","14":"tag-minnesota","15":"tag-minnesota-wild","16":"tag-minnesotawild","17":"tag-nhl","18":"tag-rousseau","19":"tag-sports","20":"tag-stevie","21":"tag-wild","22":"tag-william"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nhl\/116060353397345067","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/456187","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=456187"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/456187\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/456188"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=456187"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=456187"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=456187"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}