{"id":528339,"date":"2026-03-17T07:10:16","date_gmt":"2026-03-17T07:10:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/528339\/"},"modified":"2026-03-17T07:10:16","modified_gmt":"2026-03-17T07:10:16","slug":"foligno-face-off-continues-with-brothers-now-nhl-teammates-for-wild","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/528339\/","title":{"rendered":"‘Foligno Face-Off’ continues with brothers now NHL teammates for Wild"},"content":{"rendered":"

ST. PAUL, Minn. — Nick Foligno<\/a> has made several trips to the home of his brother, Marcus Foligno<\/a>, when his team would play at the Minnesota Wild. \u00a0<\/p>\n

But his visit last week was much, much different.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019m normally just coming to town (as the visiting team) and I’ll sneak over to his house for a little bit,\u201d Nick Foligno said, \u201cbut I was over there yesterday, I\u2019m like, \u2018I can come over tomorrow. I can come over the next day.\u2019 So it\u2019s pretty neat.\u201d<\/p>\n

The Foligno brothers’ dynamic changed quite significantly on March 6, when Nick was traded from the Chicago Blackhawks to the Wild, joining younger brother Marcus on hte Minnesota roster.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Nick, a 38-year-old forward, made his Wild debut on March 10, with Marcus, a 34-year-old forward who has been out since March 1 with a lower-body injury, watching from the press box.\u00a0<\/p>\n

The brothers let NHL.com and NHL Studios inside the magical night of Nick\u2019s debut.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cYou don\u2019t ever take it for granted,\u201d Nick said. \u201cListen, we played a long time, and we\u2019re privileged to play in the NHL but to get a chance to (when) your brothers in the NHL, to play with him, it\u2019s an amazing feeling.<\/p>\n

\u201cI think it’s something that we probably wouldn\u2019t have appreciated if we were younger but being older and being in the League a long time, seeing other brothers play, it\u2019s a lot more gratifying for us right now.\u201d<\/p>\n

The Wild acquired the eldest Foligno from the Blackhawks for future considerations. Marcus has been an alternate captain in Minnesota since 2021.<\/p>\n

Marcus heard the news about the brother reunion from Nick first.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhen he told me, I just assumed he meant he got traded to some other team because he\u2019s been traded a lot,\u201d Marcus said with a laugh. \u201cAnd I was just like, \u2018Oh yeah, that (stinks),\u2019 but when he said he was coming here I was so pumped — we both were. How cool is that to play with you brother, to just have him here, it\u2019s pretty special.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"ST. PAUL, Minn. — Nick Foligno has made several trips to the home of his brother, Marcus Foligno,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":528340,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[66],"tags":[385,99],"class_list":["post-528339","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nhl","tag-nhl","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/528339","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=528339"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/528339\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/528340"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=528339"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=528339"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=528339"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}