Minnesota Wild recall Liam Ohgren to replace Mats Zuccarello

Minnesota’s No. 1 overall prospect, according to NHL.com, is being called up “under emergency conditions”, after Zuccarello took a slap shot to the undercarriage on Thursday, during Minnesota’s latest win vs the Montreal Canadiens.

Liam Ohgren, who had a hat trick in his last AHL game, recalled by #mnwild from Iowa under emergency conditions with Mats Zuccarello out and Joel Eriksson Ek questionable

— Michael Russo (@RussoHockey) November 15, 2024

I’ve embedded the video of Mats Zuccarello’s unfortunate testicular incident at the bottom of this article. For Minnesota Wild fans, especially men, think before you scroll down. I watched it for you, because it’s my job, but you don’t have to. Zuccarello underwent surgery for said “lower body injury” recently, and he will miss 3 to 4 weeks.

Ohgren gets his 2nd 2024 shot in the NHL

Replacing Zuccarello will be Liam Ohgren, the Wild’s first round pick in 2022 (no. 19 overall). In all likelihood, we will see a lot of the organization’s top prospect on Saturday vs the Stars, and for the next month.

The emergency exception used by the Wild to recall Ohgren allows them to exceed the salary cap with his services, until Zuccarello returns. The last time Ohgren was on the ice, he scored a hat trick for the Iowa Wild vs the Rockford IceHogs.

Liam Öhgren with the hat trick finish in Iowa 🎩 🎩 🎩

Read more about our prospects » https://t.co/INsCYXfw90 pic.twitter.com/CqwlFCvm74

— Minnesota Wild (@mnwild) November 13, 2024

Ohgren made the Minnesota Wild roster, out of training camp. Unfortunately, he averaged just 9.5 minutes of ice time during his 7 games with the NHL club. The 20-year-old Swed used those limited minutes earlier this season to score 0 goals and collect 0 assists (-2 +/-).

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I can’t imagine head coach John Hynes and president of hockey operations Bill Guerin would call Ohgren up, especially after a breakout hat trick game in Iowa earlier this week, just so he can collect minutes on the bench in St. Paul with the 4th line.

“Under emergency conditions”

Anyway, as promised… here is the video of Mats Zuccarello injury. Reminder: I tried to warn you.

Mats Zuccarello will miss at least "three-to-four weeks" after undergoing surgery for a lower body injury during Thursday's game vs. Montreal pic.twitter.com/PTJGS7BvqD

— B/R Open Ice (@BR_OpenIce) November 15, 2024

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In episode 58 of the Minnesota Sports Fan Podcast, I open the show with Seth Toups (MSF Writer, KLGR Radio) and we talk mostly Wolves and their crazy weekend, where they lost out on D’Angelo Russell and then helped the Warriors finish the deal to land him? But…. hope is what came out of the weekend. Hope that we might deal Andrew Wiggins.

After chatting a little Twins to end our segment with Seth, Ryan Burns joined the show for 30 minutes of our Gopher recruiting bliss. When all you do lately is beat Wisconsin, life feels pretty good.

Lastly, WE ARE TALKING HOCKEY! That’s right… ice, puck, boards, goals… Zak Klosowski, who writes every once in awhile for us, joined the show to tell us why the Minnesota Wild are fucking themselves for the future.

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