Wild Activate Jake Middleton Off LTIR, Send Three Players Down

ST. PAUL - The Minnesota Wild (25-11-4) are back home to face the St. Louis Blues (19-18-4) tonight. They made a few roster moves ahead of the game.

The Wild announced that they have activated defenseman Jake Middleton from the Long-Term Injured Reserve and reassigned forwards Travis Boyd and Brendan Gaunce and defenseman Carson Lambos to the Iowa Wild of the American Hockey League (AHL).

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Middleton, 29, missed the last 11 games with an upper-body injury. The Wild went 6-5-0 in his absence. The 6-foot-3 defenseman has five goals and 13 points in 29 games this year.

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