{"id":643888,"date":"2026-05-02T22:34:08","date_gmt":"2026-05-02T22:34:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/643888\/"},"modified":"2026-05-02T22:34:08","modified_gmt":"2026-05-02T22:34:08","slug":"brodin-out-eriksson-ek-questionable-for-wild-against-avalanche-in-game-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/643888\/","title":{"rendered":"Brodin out, Eriksson Ek questionable for Wild against Avalanche in Game 1"},"content":{"rendered":"

Jonas Brodin<\/a> will not play for the Minnesota Wild in Game 1 of the Western Conference Second Round against the Colorado Avalanche on Sunday (9 p.m. ET; HBO MAX, truTV, TNT, SN360, SN, TVAS, CBC).\u00a0<\/p>\n

Brodin, a regular on the Wild’s second defense pair with Jared Spurgeon<\/a>, sustained a lower-body injury in the second period of a 4-2 win in Game 5 of the first round against the Dallas Stars on Tuesday after blocking a shot by Stars forward Mikko Rantanen<\/a>. He left the game at 1:44 of the second period and missed Game 6, a 5-2 win by Minnesota to clinch the best-of-7 series.<\/p>\n

“He will not be ready for Game 1,” Wild coach John\u00a0Hynes said on Saturday. “… He’s not traveling.”<\/p>\n

Brodin had one assist in five games against the Stars and averaged 19:41 of ice time per game. The 32-year-old had 18 points (four goals, 14 assists) in 62 regular-season games, averaging 20:17 of ice time.<\/p>\n

Jeff Petry<\/a> replaced Brodin for Game 6 and played 7:13, but Hynes did not say if he would be in the lineup on Sunday with\u00a0Brodin out.<\/p>\n

Hynes also said forward Joel Eriksson Ek<\/a> was “questionable” to play in Game 1 and unsure if he would be traveling with the team.<\/p>\n

The center was injured in Game 6 when he lost an edge and slid into the wall with his right leg, but finished the game. He did not practice Saturday.<\/p>\n

“I’m kind of going through that a little bit right now,” Hynes said. “So, now you kind of go down that decision-making process of what would we do if he’s not ready.”<\/p>\n

Eriksson Ek had five points (three goals, two assists) in 23:44 of ice time per game in the first round and led the Wild with a 56.4 face-off winning percentage. He had 51 points (19 goals, 32 assists) in 70 regular-season games.<\/p>\n

“It’s just trying to find if ‘Ekky’ is not ready to start, what combination (of centers) would we go with and then I think we’re going to have to continually evaluate that,” Hynes said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Jonas Brodin will not play for the Minnesota Wild in Game 1 of the Western Conference Second Round…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":643889,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[433],"tags":[49,48,448,82],"class_list":["post-643888","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nhl","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-nhl","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/643888","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=643888"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/643888\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/643889"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=643888"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=643888"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=643888"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}