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.

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.

Gustav Nyquist was traded to the Minnesota Wild by the Nashville Predators on Saturday for a second-round pick in the 2026 NHL Draft.