Brodin’s Toe Injury Lingers as Wild Manage the Next Round

Jonas Brodin sitting out round 2 because of a toe injury is the kind of quiet playoff wrinkle that can tilt a series in a hurry. Teams never love saying it out loud, but one defenseman’s mobility can change how hard a bench leans on its pairs and how much stress lands on everybody else. Fantasy managers feel that ripple too, because these injuries rarely stay neatly contained to one box score. If Brodin can’t move the way he usually does, the Wild have to patch a real hole in real time.