{"id":620458,"date":"2026-04-21T02:32:08","date_gmt":"2026-04-21T02:32:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/620458\/"},"modified":"2026-04-21T02:32:08","modified_gmt":"2026-04-21T02:32:08","slug":"zuccarello-out-for-wild-in-game-2-of-west-1st-round-with-upper-body-injury","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/620458\/","title":{"rendered":"Zuccarello out for Wild in Game 2 of West 1st Round with upper-body injury"},"content":{"rendered":"

DALLAS — Mats Zuccarello<\/a> has an upper-body injury and did not play for the Minnesota Wild in Game 2 of the Western Conference First Round against the Dallas Stars at American Airlines Center on Monday.<\/p>\n

Zuccarello had three assists in the Wild’s 6-1 win in Game 1 of the best-of-7 series on Saturday.<\/p>\n

Bobby Brink<\/a> replaced Zuccarello in Minnesota’s lineup after he was a healthy scratch for Game 1.<\/p>\n

Zuccarello has been the right wing on the Wild’s top line with center Ryan Hartman<\/a> and left wing Kirill Kaprizov<\/a>. \u00a0With him out, Vladimir Tarasenko<\/a>\u00a0will start the game skating as the right wing with Hartman and\u00a0Kaprizov.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Brink, who made his Stanley Cup Playoff debut, began the game in Tarasenko’s normal spot as the right wing on the Wild’s third line with center Danila Yurov<\/a> and left wing Nick Foligno<\/a>, who moved up from the fourth line.<\/p>\n

The other two lines featured Joel Eriksson Ek<\/a> between Matt Boldy<\/a> and Marcus Johansson<\/a>, and Michael McCarron<\/a> between Marcus Foligno<\/a> and Yakov Trenin<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Zuccarello had two assists on the power play in Game 1. He is a big part of the Wild’s first power-play unit, skating on it along with Kaprizov, Boldy, Eriksson Ek and Quinn Hughes<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Hartman\u00a0took his spot on that unit.<\/p>\n

Zuccarello had 54 points (15 goals, 39 assists) in 59 games in the regular season. He has played in 103 playoff games, getting 61 points (19 goals, 42 assists).<\/p>\n

The Wild acquired Brink from the Philadelphia Flyers on March 6. He had 30 points (15 goals, 15 assists) in 68 regular-season games, including four points (two goals, two assists) in 13 games after the trade.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"DALLAS — Mats Zuccarello has an upper-body injury and did not play for the Minnesota Wild in Game…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":620459,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[556],"tags":[64,63,575,85],"class_list":{"0":"post-620458","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-nhl","11":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/620458","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=620458"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/620458\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/620459"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=620458"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=620458"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=620458"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}