"He's injured," general manager Bill Guerin told Chad Hartman on WCCO Radio Wednesday afternoon. "I know exactly what's wrong with him, I know exactly what's going on but I'm not going to tell you. I'm not going to put it out on the radio before anybody else knows and before our PR staff knows or anything like that."

Eriksson Ek was injured in overtime Tuesday night when he was checked by the Vancouver Canucks’ Jake DeBrusk. Eriksson Ek’s right leg absorbed the collision before he landed awkwardly on the ice. Eriksson Ek,

PAUL - In a very chippy and playoff-like game, Joel Eriksson Ek was one of many Wild players who got roughed up. He took a bad elbow to the face earlier in the game that went uncalled. Later he took a heavy cross-check to the back by Tyler Myers and skated off slowly.