Minnesota Wild head coach John Hynes said he is "cautiously optimistic" that star forward Kirill Kaprizov and captain Jared Spurgeon will return to the lineup against the Utah Hockey Club on Thursday.

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“We still kept going,” captain Jared Spurgeon recalled. But what did bring the action to a halt was players slacking off the last few minutes. That’s when John Hynes spoke up, their coach ...

“The way we answered and came back after their goal is the mental toughness that we have been showing all year,” said Foligno, who scored for the third straight game and was moved up to the second ...

To successfully play defense in the NHL for more than a decade, as Minnesota Wild captain Jared Spurgeon has ... about these things,” Wild coach John Hynes said after the team’s morning ...

Veteran defenseman Jared Spurgeon took a puck to the throat ... but did not end up finishing the game. Head coach John Hynes said Spurgeon was doing better after the game, and the Wild hope ...

Hynes said there could be a myriad of reasons for it. The top two pairs of Jonas Brodin-Brock Faber and Jake Middleton-Jared Spurgeon got a heavy workload down the stretch of the regular season ...

Like the good adopted Minnesotan that he has become since taking over the Wild coaching reins in November 2023, John Hynes now makes his home on a lake and knows how to sprinkle in a fishing ...

Minnesota Wild defenceman Jared Spurgeon will play for Team Canada at the World Hockey Championship later this month, according to The Athletic's Michael Russo. Per Russo, the announcement was ...