{"id":457707,"date":"2026-02-14T08:47:19","date_gmt":"2026-02-14T08:47:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/457707\/"},"modified":"2026-02-14T08:47:19","modified_gmt":"2026-02-14T08:47:19","slug":"minnesota-wild-recalls-defenseman-matt-kiersted-from-iowa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/457707\/","title":{"rendered":"MINNESOTA WILD RECALLS DEFENSEMAN MATT KIERSTED FROM IOWA"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tJan 27, 2026<\/p>\n<p paraeid=\"{123164a0-5758-4460-9290-faa28155fb56}{65}\" paraid=\"502689928\">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\u00a0Matt\u00a0Kiersted\u00a0from the Iowa Wild of the American Hockey League (AHL).\u00a0<\/p>\n<p lang=\"EN-US\" paraeid=\"{bed08767-1bf4-4a56-8ed9-939c4cc5fc3b}{99}\" paraid=\"1509573830\" xml:lang=\"EN-US\">Kiersted, 27 (4\/14\/98), has one assist and four shots\u00a0on goal in four games\u00a0with Minnesota this season. He has also recorded four assists, 56 shots\u00a0on goal\u00a0and 22\u00a0penalty minutes (PIM)\u00a0in 28 games with Iowa. The 6-foot, 181-pound native of Elk River, Minnesota, posted 29 points (1-28=29), 40 PIM and a plus-34 rating in 64 games with the Charlotte Checkers (AHL) last season, leading the AHL in plus-minus rating and ranking second among Charlotte skaters in assists.\u00a0Kiersted\u00a0also registered eight assists, 12 PIM and a plus-8 rating in 13 games during the 2025 Calder Cup Playoffs, helping the Checkers to an appearance in the Calder Cup Finals.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p lang=\"EN-US\" paraeid=\"{bed08767-1bf4-4a56-8ed9-939c4cc5fc3b}{113}\" paraid=\"85675852\" xml:lang=\"EN-US\">For his career,\u00a0Kiersted\u00a0has tallied eight points (2-6=8) in 43 career games in\u00a0parts of five\u00a0NHL seasons with the Florida Panthers (2020-25) and Minnesota (2025-26). He has also skated in 261 games and notched 89 points (16-73=89), 223 PIM and a plus-44 rating across five AHL seasons with Charlotte (2021-25) and Iowa (2025-26) while posting 12 points (1-11=12) in 30 career Calder Cup Playoff games. He originally signed with Florida as a free agent on April 1, 2021, and\u00a0wears\u00a0sweater No. 26 with the Wild.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p paraeid=\"{e2328b84-323e-4a63-829f-e8880c4b8a40}{22}\" 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=\"{e2328b84-323e-4a63-829f-e8880c4b8a40}{60}\" 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=\"{e2328b84-323e-4a63-829f-e8880c4b8a40}{80}\" 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 27, 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":457708,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5118],"tags":[401,8559,1928,5,8558,25678,7807,161,38,5280,4,43,162],"class_list":["post-457707","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-minnesota-wild","tag-ahl","tag-des-moines","tag-entertainment","tag-hockey","tag-iowa","tag-kiersted","tag-matt","tag-minnesota","tag-minnesota-wild","tag-minnesotawild","tag-nhl","tag-sports","tag-wild"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nhl\/116068118904224231","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/457707","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=457707"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/457707\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/457708"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=457707"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=457707"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=457707"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}