{"id":517425,"date":"2026-03-04T05:03:06","date_gmt":"2026-03-04T05:03:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/517425\/"},"modified":"2026-03-04T05:03:06","modified_gmt":"2026-03-04T05:03:06","slug":"wild-activate-jonas-brodin-from-injured-reserve-reassign-matt-kiersted-tyler-pitlick-pro-hockey-rumors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/517425\/","title":{"rendered":"Wild Activate Jonas Brodin From Injured Reserve, Reassign Matt Kiersted, Tyler Pitlick \u2013 Pro Hockey Rumors"},"content":{"rendered":"

8:15 PM:\u00a0As anticipated, the Minnesota Wild have activated Brodin from injured reserve (Twitter Link<\/a>), while Kiersted as well as today\u2019s unclaimed<\/a> Tyler Pitlick<\/a> are headed to the Iowa Wild of the AHL. Not having played since January 12, Brodin will rejoin longtime teammate Jared Spurgeon<\/a> in what has become an eventful day for Minnesota, as they acquired<\/a> Michael McCarron<\/a> from Nashville for a 2028 second rounder.<\/p>\n

Kiersted and Pitlick, both with NHL experience, will be welcome additions back to Iowa, currently ranked last in the AHL.<\/p>\n

3:30 PM: Wild defenseman Jonas Brodin<\/a>\u00a0is expected to return to the lineup tonight against the Lightning, Joe Smith of The Athletic reports. He\u2019ll need to come off injured reserve. Minnesota didn\u2019t have an open roster spot entering today, but has assigned D-man Matt Kiersted<\/a>\u00a0to AHL Iowa, per PuckPedia<\/a>, giving them the flexibility to activate Brodin.<\/p>\n

Brodin, 32, has been out for the past seven weeks after undergoing a minor lower-body procedure in mid-January. Thanks to the Olympic break, he only missed 14 games. It was his second multi-game absence of the season after missing four games with a related lower-body issue in December.<\/p>\n

Minnesota\u2019s defense is now at full health for the first time since early December as they jockey for playoff seeding in the Central Division with the Avalanche and Stars. They\u2019re 7-2-1 in their last 10, but those two regulation losses have come in their last two games, dropping contests to the Mammoth and Blues by a combined score of 8-3. They\u2019ll have Brodin back in their top four on a familiar pairing with captain Jared Spurgeon<\/a>\u00a0as they try to end that brief slide against a Lightning team reeling from a 6-2 loss to the Sabres over the weekend.<\/p>\n

Now in his 14th season in Minnesota, Brodin remains as high-end a defensive piece as ever. His ice time is under 22 minutes per game for the first time in six years, due in part to\u00a0Quinn Hughes<\/a>\u2018 acquisition pushing him out of the de facto #1 slot on the Wild\u2019s left side, but he\u2019s maintained a +13 rating in 42 games while starting 54.8% of his 5-on-5 shifts in the defensive zone. That\u2019s his highest figure since 2020-21, and it\u2019s come with him controlling 48.6% of shot attempts but 52.4% of expected goals.<\/p>\n

Kiersted, 27, heads back to Iowa after serving as an extra defenseman for the Wild\u2019s first three games out of the break. The Minnesota native has suited up four times for the Wild this year in addition to posting a goal and seven points in 33 games for Iowa.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"8:15 PM:\u00a0As anticipated, the Minnesota Wild have activated Brodin from injured reserve (Twitter Link), while Kiersted as well…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":517426,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[556],"tags":[64,63,222619,214857,7524,575,85,206,258491],"class_list":["post-517425","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nhl","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-jonas-brodin","tag-matt-kiersted","tag-minnesota-wild","tag-nhl","tag-sports","tag-transactions","tag-tyler-pitlick"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/517425","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=517425"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/517425\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/517426"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=517425"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=517425"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=517425"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}