{"id":634294,"date":"2026-05-10T06:59:12","date_gmt":"2026-05-10T06:59:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/634294\/"},"modified":"2026-05-10T06:59:12","modified_gmt":"2026-05-10T06:59:12","slug":"wild-schmidt-engle-pro-hockey-rumors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/634294\/","title":{"rendered":"Wild, Schmidt, Engle \u2013 Pro Hockey Rumors"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"byline\">\n  By <a href=\"https:\/\/www.prohockeyrumors.com\/author\/brianlarose\" title=\"Posts by Brian La Rose\" rel=\"author nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Brian La Rose<\/a> |<br \/>\n  at May 9, 2026 4:01 pm  <\/p>\n<p>There is a mixture of good and bad news for the Wild as they head into the third game of their series against Colorado tonight.\u00a0 Michael Russo of The Athletic relays (<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/RussoHockey\/status\/2053156641743249497\" rel=\"nofollow\">Twitter link<\/a>) that defenseman <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hockey-reference.com\/players\/b\/bogosza01.html?utm_medium=linker&amp;utm_source=www.prohockeyrumors.com&amp;utm_campaign=2026-05-09_hr\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Zach Bogosian<\/a> will indeed return from the lower-body injury that kept him out of Tuesday\u2019s game.\u00a0 Meanwhile, after missing practice Friday due to illness, winger <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hockey-reference.com\/players\/z\/zuccama01.html?utm_medium=linker&amp;utm_source=www.prohockeyrumors.com&amp;utm_campaign=2026-05-09_hr\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Mats Zuccarello<\/a> took part in today\u2019s morning skate and will be good to go for this game as well.\u00a0 However, the news isn\u2019t as positive for center <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hockey-reference.com\/players\/e\/eriksjo02.html?utm_medium=linker&amp;utm_source=www.prohockeyrumors.com&amp;utm_campaign=2026-05-09_hr\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Joel Eriksson Ek<\/a>.\u00a0 He didn\u2019t skate today and has been ruled out for tonight\u2019s contest, meaning that Minnesota will be trying to get back into the series without their top center once again.<\/p>\n<p>Elsewhere in the Central Division:<\/p>\n<p>A promising Stars prospect is on the move for the second time in less than six months. Earlier this week, WHL Victoria <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/chl.ca\/whl-royals\/article\/royals-acquire-dallas-stars-prospect-cameron-schmidt\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">announced<\/a> that they\u2019ve acquired winger <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.eliteprospects.com\/player\/576988\/cameron-schmidt\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Cameron Schmidt<\/a> from Seattle in exchange for a pair of draft picks, including the seventh-round pick in the draft from a few days ago.\u00a0 The 19-year-old was a late third-round pick last year, falling due to his smaller stature.\u00a0 But Schmidt is coming off an impressive 2025-26 season, one that saw him reach 100 points in 72 games between Vancouver and Seattle.\u00a0 He\u2019ll now get a shot at one more run at the junior level before likely turning pro for the 2027-28 campaign.<br \/>\nJets prospect <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.eliteprospects.com\/player\/577016\/edison-engle\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Edison Engle<\/a> has changed his college commitment. <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/illegalcurve.com\/winnipeg-jets-prospect-edison-engle-changes-commitment-to-western-michigan\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">According to Illegal Curve\u2019s David Minuk<\/a> and confirmed by Brad Elliott Schlossmann of the Grand Forks Herald, the 19-year-old will now play for Western Michigan next season instead of Ohio State as originally planned.\u00a0 Engle was a sixth-round pick by Winnipeg last summer, going 188th overall.\u00a0 He played for OHL Brantford this season and in his first year at that level, he put up 28 points in 61 games during the regular season before adding five more in 15 playoff contests.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"By Brian La Rose | at May 9, 2026 4:01 pm There is a mixture of good and&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":634295,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[66],"tags":[273996,4825,273997,260448,153514,4828,385,99,5700,4827,258736],"class_list":["post-634294","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nhl","tag-cameron-schmidt","tag-dallas-stars","tag-edison-engle","tag-joel-eriksson-ek","tag-mats-zuccarello","tag-minnesota-wild","tag-nhl","tag-sports","tag-whl","tag-winnipeg-jets","tag-zach-bogosian"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/634294","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=634294"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/634294\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/634295"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=634294"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=634294"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=634294"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}