Brock Faber’s recovery update gives the Wild a much-needed boost

The Minnesota Wild had to be feeling good about themselves as they entered Tuesday’s game against the Philadelphia Flyers with a record of 10-3-3. But with uncertainty about the roster and Quinn Hughes’s long-term future with the team, they got the good news they may have needed as John Hynes told The Athletic’s Michael Russo that Brock Faber has been medically cleared to return from a skull fracture.

“While he said he still doesn’t have a timeline for Brock Faber’s return, he also indicated it won’t be far, far off in the distance,” Russo wrote on the Wild’s game blog Tuesday afternoon. “He said Faber has essentially been cleared to return to play and now it’s just upping his fitness on a…