With Minnesota only carrying the minimum of 12 healthy forwards following last night’s trade with Vancouver, it was only a matter of time before the Wild brought up an extra for depth purposes. That move has now been made as the team announced that Hunter Haight has been recalled from AHL Iowa.

The 21-year-old is in the second season of his entry-level contract and made the team out of training camp, though he only got into a pair of games before being sent down to Iowa. Haight was held off the scoresheet in those outings while averaging 9:22 per game of ice time. He has been recalled three other times before now but those haven’t yielded another NHL appearance yet.

In between, Haight has been in and out of the lineup with Iowa and the going back and forth likely hasn’t helped

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