Wild defenders Brodin, Faber added to the team’s long list of injuries

ST. PAUL, Minn. – The Minnesota Wild have added defensemen Jonas Brodin and Brock Faber to their list of key injured players, leaving them out of the lineup for their game against Colorado on Thursday night.

Brodin’s status is day to day. He has a lower-body injury from blocking a shot late in the 6-4 win over St. Louis Tuesday night. Wild coach John Hynes had no update after the team’s morning skate Thursday on the timetable for the return of Faber, who has an upper-body injury from an elbow he took from Blues forward Jake Neighbors at the end of his first shift.

The Wild were already missing captain Jared Spurgeon (lower body), who is expected to be out for another week or two after taking a blow to the foot from Nashville forward Zachary L’Heureux in their Dec. 31 game. That leaves Minnesota without three of its top four defensive players. Jake Middleton has just returned from a 10 game absence due to an upper body injury.

The Wild have also been without left wing Kirill Kaprizov (lower body), who missed his seventh straight game Thursday. Kaprizov, which is in fourth place in NHL with 23 goals and tied for ninth in the league with 50 points, has skated the past two days and could return soon.