As one good thing happened for Minnesota Wild fans, the hockey gods hit them with a discouraging update about veteran winger Mats Zuccarello. It's hard to get down from the high of signing franchise superstar Kirill Kaprizov to an eight-year contract extension, but losing Zuccarello for 7-8 weeks with a lower-body injury is one way to do it.

“The 38-year-old forward is expected to miss a minimum of 7-8 weeks,” the team announced via a release on NHL.com. “Wild general manager Bill Guerin said Sept. 18 that ‘something came up' and did not know if Zuccarello would need surgery.”

Zuccarello is in the final year of a two-year extension he signed with the team in 2023. He has been with the Wild since signing with them before the 2019-20 season, and has been a reliable forward in the mid

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