{"id":657105,"date":"2026-05-08T05:56:07","date_gmt":"2026-05-08T05:56:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/657105\/"},"modified":"2026-05-08T05:56:07","modified_gmt":"2026-05-08T05:56:07","slug":"wild-nikishin-hoglander-pro-hockey-rumors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/657105\/","title":{"rendered":"Wild, Nikishin, Hoglander \u2013 Pro Hockey Rumors"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n By Brian La Rose<\/a> |
\n at May 7, 2026 9:00 pm <\/p>\n

There\u2019s a rare three-day break in the Colorado-Minnesota series and with the Wild down a couple of games and a trio of veterans, they\u2019re probably quite content to have the extra time.\u00a0 Head coach John Hynes told reporters today including Joe Smith of The Athletic (Twitter link<\/a>) that they\u2019re optimistic that defenseman Zach Bogosian<\/a> will be able to return on Saturday from the lower-body injury that caused him to miss Tuesday\u2019s contest.\u00a0 The news isn\u2019t quite as good for Joel Eriksson Ek<\/a>, however.\u00a0 Hynes relayed that the center has yet to skate since sustaining a lower-body injury of his own.\u00a0 However, it appears they\u2019d be willing to put him in the lineup without a practice if he\u2019s cleared to resume skating which hasn\u2019t happened yet.\u00a0 Minnesota could certainly use Eriksson Ek back as they look to get back into the series.<\/p>\n

Other injury news from around the NHL:<\/p>\n

The Hurricanes welcomed back a key part of their back end tonight against Philadelphia with the team announcing (Twitter link<\/a>) that Alexander Nikishin<\/a> was returning to the lineup. The rookie sustained a concussion in the final game of their opening-round series versus Ottawa and missed the first two games of this round.\u00a0 Nikishin had 11 goals and 22 assists in 81 games during the regular season while averaging over 18 minutes per night.
\nCanucks winger Nils Hoglander<\/a> was expected to play for Sweden at the upcoming World Championship. However, that\u2019s no longer the case as their federation announced (Twitter link<\/a>) that Hoglander is withdrawing from the roster due to injury and will be replaced by Red Wings winger Lucas Raymond<\/a>.\u00a0 Injuries were the theme of the year for Hoglander, who was limited to just 38 games.\u00a0 He struggled considerably in those outings, notching just two goals and three assists and was undoubtedly hoping to use this tournament as a springboard to his offseason.\u00a0 Meanwhile, Raymond\u2019s addition is a big one for the Swedes.\u00a0 He surpassed the 70-point mark for the third straight year, notching 25 goals and 51 assists in 80 games.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"By Brian La Rose | at May 7, 2026 9:00 pm There\u2019s a rare three-day break in the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":657106,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[556],"tags":[227035,64,63,3615,3064,3899,222618,70223,7524,575,317722,85,2371,2086,222621],"class_list":["post-657105","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nhl","tag-alexander-nikishin","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-carolina-hurricanes","tag-detroit-red-wings","tag-injury","tag-joel-eriksson-ek","tag-lucas-raymond","tag-minnesota-wild","tag-nhl","tag-nils-hoglander","tag-sports","tag-vancouver-canucks","tag-world-championship","tag-zach-bogosian"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/657105","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=657105"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/657105\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/657106"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=657105"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=657105"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=657105"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}