PITTSBURGH – Even though the Wild removed the injured reserve tag from center Nico Sturm on Friday following their morning skate at PPG Paints Arena, coach John Hynes said the season debut for the German faceoff specialist likely will not come until Sunday afternoon in Winnipeg at the earliest.

And with Ryan Hartman and Marco Rossi both still out with lower-body injuries, that meant a second game — and maybe more to come — with rookie Danila Yurov centering the team’s top line between Mats Zuccarello and Kirill Kaprizov.

Things could hardly have started better for Yurov in his debut as the team’s top-line center. Less than two minutes into what would eventually become a 4-3 shootout win over Carolina late Wednesday night, Yurov fed a pass to Zuccarello, whose long-range shot deflected of

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