Young and Wild: Novak getting helpers, Simon Johansson impressing

Every week we will take a look around the Minnesota Wild prospect pool and see what players have had an impressive streak of games. It might be three, it might be five, it might just be one. Let’s look at The Young and Wild.

The junior and college leagues are gearing up for their postseasons and the NHL had their All-Star weekend. Not a whole lot of games to go off of, but there were certainly some key Wild prospects deserving some sort of spotlight.

Pavel Novak

I think it is now three consecutive Young and Wilds that I have mentioned Novak’s name, but he is just really putting up the points in his final months as a teenager in the WHL. During the last week, the 2020 fifth-round pick has…