ST. LOUIS — On Monday, Minnesota Wild coach John Hynes smiled as he talked about his team’s centers and the veteran experience he expected to have down the middle, with Marco Rossi, Joel Eriksson Ek, Ryan Hartman and newly acquired Marco Sturm ready to go for the season-opening visit to the Blues.

By Wednesday, everything had changed.

Before his team boarded their Missouri-bound charter, Hynes revealed that an upper-body injury that has limited Sturm’s availability for all of training camp has caused a setback, and the Wild will not have the faceoff specialist for the foreseeable future.

“I know he’s going to be out for a while. I believe that he’s getting ready to see doctors. I think it’s later today or tomorrow,” Hynes said on Wednesday afternoon. “So, I’ll probably have more informa

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