It hasn’t been the start to his Wild career that Tyler Ennis had hoped.
Even with injuries to top-nine forwards Zach Parise and Charlie Coyle and before their return Mikael Granlund and Nino Niederreiter, the former Buffalo Sabres winger had been relegated to third- and much of the time fourth-line duty for his first 10 games.
In Winnipeg and Calgary a few weekends ago, Ennis logged nine and 10 minutes, respectively, on the fourth line and was back on the fourth line in Tuesday’s most recent home loss to the Jets.
“You want to be a first-line guy.