The Wild will play for at least a week without Marco Rossi, who is sidelined because of an unspecified lower-body injury.
The team’s first-line center went on injured reserve Friday and is week-to-week.
Coach John Hynes said Friday that Rossi has “something that was bothering him a little bit and started to get a little bit worse.”
Players on injured reserve are out for at least seven days.
The Wild face Anaheim on Saturday and Vegas on Sunday at Grand Casino Arena.
Rossi missed a game in New York against the Rangers on Oct. 20 after blocking a shot in the team’s previous game, in Philadelphia, two nights earlier.
That ended his streak of playing in 173 consecutive games, a string that dated to April 10, 2023.
At the time, Hynes said, “When a guy like him says he can’t play, then you know there’s something really bothering him.”
