The Minnesota Wild are on a two day break, as they prepare for their next game on Thursday versus the Utah Hockey Club. Recently, a roster that has been ravaged by injuries all season, has started to get healthier.

Leading Wild goal scorer Kirill Kaprizov has missed multiple games with a lower-body injury, but his return could be imminent.

And the clearest signal that Kaprizov and Spurgeon would be back is that the Wild reassigned defenseman David Jiricek two hours after practice. If you did the salary cap math, it really was the only option to get below the cap ceiling once Kaprizov is activated from LTIR.