Injury Report: Jonas Brodin (Injured Paw)

[57special]

Andy Ness is great, but I can't help but feel that Brodin should be teaching skating to him, not the other way around.

 

[Wabit]

Andy Ness is great, but I can't help but feel that Brodin should be teaching skating to him, not the other way around.

Probably more of a motivational, drills, stay in shape type of coaching than working on skating skills.

 

[FVM]

Probably more of a motivational, drills, stay in shape type of coaching than working on skating skills.

That was an attempt at what experts call "humour", I would think.

 

[Minnesota]

 

[Dee Oh Cee]

Maybe back for the Chicago game on 2/21, otherwise seems like he'd be back after the bye week for sure.

 

[Digitalbooya]

Excited for this guy to return. Dumba needs him to stabilize the defense. Scandella isn't cutting it on the pair.

 

[57special]

Scandella has been fine. Better than Dumba by quite a bit.

 

[tomgilbertfan]

 

[Sharppi]

Yay!

 

[Hugart]

**** yeah!

 

[57special]

Brodin...pfft...who needs him?

 

[SomethingGeneric]

Can't wait for Brodin to get back out there, always fun to watch him do what he does best.

 

[Keke]

Brodin...pfft...who needs him?

Las Vegas

Edit: I would freak out if Brodin is exposed

 

[tomgilbertfan]

 

[Digitalbooya]

Scandella has been fine. Better than Dumba by quite a bit.

Not exactly what I meant. Dumba needs a stabilizing defensive dman on his pair for him to be effective. That's not Scandella's style of play.

Brodin...pfft...who needs him?

Not to be that guy but the Wild did go 8-2-1 without him in the lineup.

 

[PuckInTheNards]

Not to be that guy but the Wild did go 8-2-1 without him in the lineup.

Fair point but our defense seemed significantly worse with him out of the lineup.

 

[57special]

Not exactly what I meant. Dumba needs a stabilizing defensive dman on his pair for him to be effective. That's not Scandella's style of play.


Not to be that guy but the Wild did go 8-2-1 without him in the lineup.

And I'm sure they have a better record with Nate Prosser in the lineup, ergo, Prosser is better than Brodin.

And you ARE being that guy!

 

[Digitalbooya]

Fair point but our defense seemed significantly worse with him out of the lineup.

Not to also be that guy, but that was really Dumba and Scandella and their inability to click. If I were pairing dmen with Brodin out I'd go:

Suter-Dumba
Scandella-Spurgeon
Olofsson-Folin
Reilly/Prosser

 

[Digitalbooya]

And I'm sure they have a better record with Nate Prosser in the lineup, ergo, Prosser is better than Brodin.

Any you ARE being that guy!

Apples to oranges. Prosser plays an average of 13 minutes a game. When he is in the lineup almost everyone else has their TOI go up (ye know, the better players). We've seen teams have the ability to just run a top 4. Yeo did it for years.

The point was even though Brodin was out of the lineup this team keeps winning. Not something to be mad about; just an observation.

 

[AKL]

Fair point but our defense seemed significantly worse with him out of the lineup.

But we still went 8-2-1.

 

[123TripleDoge]

Hope he doesn't rush it back and risk hurting it again. We're doing ok

 

[Minnesota]

From Russo's gamer:

Wild defenseman Jonas Brodin, who broke a finger Jan. 17 and has missed 12 games, is back practicing and is maybe a week from returning. Brodin said he is still having difficulty shooting and doing “one-hand stuff.â€

“You worry sometimes that when he’s out you’re putting too much pressure and ice time on [Ryan Suter and Spurgeon],†Boudreau said. “We can tell we miss him and definitely in situations where you’re sitting there and you don’t want to play Suter 31 minutes a night. You go, ‘Geez, here’s minutes that Brods could eat right up.’ Heâ€s missed.â€

 

[BigT2002]

Let him heal. The team is still winning. Play the long game.

 

[Mnsportsfan22]

Brodin back on ir

 

[Minnesota]

Brodin back on ir

For roster purposes. Still expected to return next week.