The NHL season is still a couple of months away from starting, but training camps are going to be here before we know it. The Minnesota Wild have a few new faces joining them this coming season, but overall, they have the same team as last season. They will be missing Jonas Brodin to start the season, but everyone else is expected to be healthy and ready to start the season on opening night.
It’s time to make some bold predictions for this upcoming season, and hopefully, these go better than last season’s. One of the three predictions made last season came true, which was Filip Gustavsson getting 30 wins, and he got 31. The other two weren’t fulfilled because of injuries and putting a bit too high expectations on a rookie. In this article, we’ll take a look at three bold predictions for this upcoming season, starting with health, and expand into some fan predictions.
Wild Stay Healthier Than Season Prior
This is hopefully not setting them up for an even worse injury-ridden season, but the Wild have to have a better season injury-wise than 2024-25. It seemed like every single game, they had someone out, and once someone returned to the lineup healthy, someone else dropped. At one point during the season, they were without Kirill Kaprizov, Jonas Brodin, and Jared Spurgeon.
This is going to be a bold prediction because the Wild have quite a few players who struggle to stay healthy; however, this isn’t about staying perfectly healthy. Everyone knows every team deals with injuries, and this prediction is about how the Wild will boldly stay healthier than last season.
They have to have Kaprizov, Joel Eriksson Ek, Brodin, Spurgeon, everybody as healthy as can be. If there are injuries, hopefully they’re minor and nothing that requires surgery or a lot of off-time. Obviously, most of this is out of the player and team’s hands, but they need to ensure they’re doing everything they can to stay uninjured.
Buium Earns Roster Spot
This one may be pretty bold, but Brock Faber found a spot in the lineup pretty quickly, and Zeev Buium could, too. It won’t be easy; he’ll have to up his game quite a bit, but he has the talent and the potential. He’s a strong, young player with quite…
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