{"id":256121,"date":"2025-11-01T20:10:07","date_gmt":"2025-11-01T20:10:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/256121\/"},"modified":"2025-11-01T20:10:07","modified_gmt":"2025-11-01T20:10:07","slug":"central-notes-zuccarello-kantserov-aamodt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/256121\/","title":{"rendered":"Central Notes: Zuccarello, Kantserov, Aamodt"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Wild could soon be getting a needed boost up front.\u00a0\u00a0 On Friday, head coach John Hynes indicated (<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/mnwild\/status\/1984373360420073475\" rel=\"nofollow\">Twitter link<\/a>) that winger <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hockey-reference.com\/players\/z\/zuccama01.html?utm_medium=linker&amp;utm_source=www.prohockeyrumors.com&amp;utm_campaign=2025-11-01_hr\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Mats Zuccarello<\/a> is within a week or so of returning to the lineup.\u00a0 The 38-year-old has yet to suit up this season due to a back injury that also caused him to miss training camp.\u00a0 While Zuccarello isn\u2019t a major scoring threat, he\u2019s one of Minnesota\u2019s better playmakers and is coming off a solid showing in 2024-25 that saw him record 19 goals and 35 assists in 69 games.\u00a0 His eventual return would go a long way to giving them a second scoring line, an area that has been an issue in the early going this season.<\/p>\n<p>Elsewhere in the Central:<\/p>\n<p>Blackhawks prospect <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.eliteprospects.com\/player\/709028\/roman-kantserov\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Roman Kantserov<\/a> is in the final year of his KHL contract, leading some to hope that he will come to North America for next season. Speaking <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/rg.org\/news\/hockey\/blackhawks-prospect-roman-kantserov-eyes-2026-nhl-move\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">with RG\u2019s Sergey Demidov<\/a>, the 21-year-old indicated that he\u2019d like to test himself in the NHL but isn\u2019t planning on making a decision on his future until next year when his deal expires.\u00a0 A second-round pick in 2023 (44th overall), Kantserov had 38 points in 47 games last season and is off to a better start in 2025-26, notching a league-high 13 goals and eight assists in 21 appearances so far.<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.hockey-reference.com\/players\/a\/aamodwy01.html?utm_medium=linker&amp;utm_source=www.prohockeyrumors.com&amp;utm_campaign=2025-11-01_hr\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Wyatt Aamodt<\/a>\u2019s stint with the Avalanche was short-lived. Just two days after recalling the blueliner, the team announced (<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/Avalanche\/status\/1984653456611951055\" rel=\"nofollow\">Twitter link<\/a>) that they have sent him back to AHL Colorado.\u00a0 The 27-year-old didn\u2019t play on this recall, keeping his career NHL appearance total at two and his point total at one, a tally in last season\u2019s final game.\u00a0 Aamodt has a goal and five assists in nine games with the Eagles so far this season.\u00a0 The move leaves Colorado with just six healthy blueliners at the moment but <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hockey-reference.com\/players\/g\/girarsa01.html?utm_medium=linker&amp;utm_source=www.prohockeyrumors.com&amp;utm_campaign=2025-11-01_hr\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Samuel Girard<\/a> has been skating in recent days and is thought to be nearing a return.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Wild could soon be getting a needed boost up front.\u00a0\u00a0 On Friday, head coach John Hynes indicated&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":256122,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[556],"tags":[64,63,7520,7522,981,151209,7524,575,151210,85,206,151211],"class_list":{"0":"post-256121","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nhl","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-chicago-blackhawks","11":"tag-colorado-avalanche","12":"tag-khl","13":"tag-mats-zuccarello","14":"tag-minnesota-wild","15":"tag-nhl","16":"tag-roman-kantserov","17":"tag-sports","18":"tag-transactions","19":"tag-wyatt-aamodt"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/256121","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=256121"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/256121\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/256122"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=256121"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=256121"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=256121"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}