{"id":389906,"date":"2026-01-05T22:04:08","date_gmt":"2026-01-05T22:04:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/389906\/"},"modified":"2026-01-05T22:04:08","modified_gmt":"2026-01-05T22:04:08","slug":"minnesota-wild-recalls-defenseman-david-jiricek-from-iowa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/389906\/","title":{"rendered":"Minnesota Wild Recalls Defenseman David Ji\u0159\u00ed\u010dek From Iowa"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>SAINT PAUL, Minn. &#8211; Minnesota Wild President of Hockey Operations and General Manager Bill Guerin today announced the National Hockey League (NHL) club has recalled defenseman David Ji\u0159\u00ed\u010dek (YIHR-ih-chehk) from the Iowa Wild of the American Hockey League (AHL).<\/p>\n<p>Ji\u0159\u00ed\u010dek, 22 (11\/28\/03), has skated in 18 games with Minnesota this season, registering a plus-1 rating, 12 penalty minutes (PIM) and 11 shots on goal. He has also played in 13 games with Iowa, tallying three points (1-2=3) and 35 shots on goal. The 6-foot-4, 204-pound native of Klatovy, Czech Republic owns 13 points (2-11=13) in 77 career NHL games with Columbus (2022-24) and Minnesota (2024-26). Ji\u0159\u00ed\u010dek owns 70 points (16-54=70) and 234 shots on goal in 128 career AHL games with Cleveland (2022-24) and Iowa (2024-26). He was originally selected by Columbus in the first round (sixth overall) of the 2022 NHL Draft. Ji\u0159\u00ed\u010dek was acquired by Minnesota in a trade with the Blue Jackets on Nov. 30, 2024, and wears sweater No. 55 with the Wild.<\/p>\n<p>Minnesota plays at the Los Angeles Kings tonight at 9:30 p.m. CT on FanDuel Sports Network and KFAN FM 100.3.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"SAINT PAUL, Minn. &#8211; Minnesota Wild President of Hockey Operations and General Manager Bill Guerin today announced the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":389907,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[66],"tags":[385,99],"class_list":{"0":"post-389906","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nhl","8":"tag-nhl","9":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/389906","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=389906"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/389906\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/389907"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=389906"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=389906"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=389906"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}