Another one bites the dust for the Minnesota Wild.
After placing winger Kirill Kaprizov on injured reserve with an upper-body injury earlier in the day, the team also placed top defenseman Jared Spurgeon on injured reserve Wednesday night.
The Wild did not clarify whether Spurgeon’s injury was related to a lower-body injury that left him out of seven games during the month of December, but the Star Tribune’s Sarah McLellan reported that it was the same lower-body injury that is landing him on injured reserve.
Spurgeon was on long-term injured reserve previously this season with an upper-body injury and has only played in 16 games so far this season. His next stint on the injured reserve is another blow to a Wild team that’s been decimated with injuries all season and is already down its top forward in Kaprizov.
The Wild are currently now without Spurgeon, Kaprizov, Filip Gustavsson, Vinni Lettieri, Mats Zuccarello, Jonas Brodin and Marcus Foligno. Gustavsson, Lettieri, Brodin and Zuccarello are all on injured reserve. Foligno was scratched before Tuesday night’s game with a lower-body injury.
