With the injury-riddled Minnesota Wild struggling to score and kill penalties and trying to stave off a stumble down the standings amidst a three-game losing streak, general manager Bill Guerin traded a 2026 second-round pick to the Nashville Predators on Saturday to bring back veteran forward Gustav Nyquist.

Nyquist, 35, has nine goals and 21 points in 57 games for the Predators this season while playing on both of the team’s special team’s units.

Getting moved to a different team didn’t surprise Gustav Nyquist. “I knew something was coming,” he said. But the timing, almost a week ahead of the NHL trade deadline, was earlier than he expected.