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5 Veterans Missing, but Wild Seek No Excuses in Road Win
Veterans Marcus Foligno, Ryan Hartman, and Vladimir Tarasenko scored key goals as the Minnesota Wild won 5-4 in overtime despite five players missing due to injury.
- On Jan. 17, 2026, the Minnesota Wild beat the Buffalo Sabres 5-4 in overtime at KeyBank Center despite missing five veteran players, as John Hynes said the team was expected to win regardless.
- With several veterans sidelined, lesser-used players like Hunter Haight gained roles, while John Hynes stressed the team is "expected to win, regardless of who’s in the lineup" and players had to prove it.
- Seeing Buffalo change personnel, Filip Gustavsson fired the puck back to Kirill Kaprizov, who fed Mats Zuccarello for the overtime winner after Buffalo sent the puck out with a dozen seconds left.
- Veterans Marcus Foligno, Ryan Hartman and Vladimir Tarasenko all scored as the Wild won for the first time in over a week, while John Hynes praised fourth-liners but stressed veterans were needed to hold the fort.
- Hughes’ 18 points in 17 games underscore the early return on Minnesota’s blockbuster trade that brought Hughes to Minnesota, a solid win for GM Bill Guerin.
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Five veterans missing, but Wild seek no excuses in road win
The message from Wild coach John Hynes before a tough road game in Buffalo early Saturday was a simple one: Even with five veteran players – three of them Olympians – sitting at home, there was a way to resume winning. The solution to their recent woes was in sitting inside the visitors’ locker room at KeyBank Center, adjacent to the frozen Buffalo River. “What I said was we do have guys out of the lineup and…one person’s not going to replace th…
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