When Gustav Nyquist suits up for the Minnesota Wild before their Sunday afternoon game versus the Boston Bruins, he will be skating in forest green and Iron Range red for the 10th time in his career. With a notable break between Game 9 and Game 10.

On Saturday, the Wild added Nyquist, a veteran forward with more than 900 NHL games on his resume, for the stretch run on Saturday, acquiring the former University of Maine star from Nashville for a second-round pick in the 2026 draft.

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. He is a pending unrestricted free agent with a $3.18 million salary cap hit, although Nashville will retain 50 percent of Nyquist’s contract.

The Wild are in solid playoff position despite playing without superstar winger Kirill Kaprizov, who has played in just three games since before Christmas and had surgery Jan. 31 to repair a lower-body injury. Center Joel Eriksson Ek also is on injured reserve with a lower body injury.

This is the second time Wild general manager Bill Guerin has traded for Nyquist ahead of the NHL trade deadline, which comes Friday afternoon this season. Acquired in 2022-23, Nyquist had a goal and nine assists in nine games, the last six in the postseason (0-5—5). Playing for Columbus in 2021-22, Nyquist appeared in 82 games and scored four short-handed goals, third in the NHL that season.

With the Wild also losing defenseman Zach Bogosian prior to their Friday game at Colorado, and losing defenseman Jonas Brodin after he played one third-period shift, it appears help may be needed on the back end, as well.

On Saturday, the Wild recalled defenseman David Jiricek from Iowa, which seems to hint that either Bogosian or Brodin, or both, won’t be available for the Boston game — and maybe next week’s two-game road trip to Seattle and Vancouver.

Wild captain Jared Spurgeon spoke of the challenges facing the Wild this season with so many players in and out of the lineup due to injury.

“It doesn’t matter who’s in the lineup. We have a system that we have to play and we have to play it the closest to perfect as we can, no matter who’s in the lineup, to give ourselves the best chance to win,” Spurgeon said following the loss in Colorado, which was the Wild’s third in a row.

“Obviously, it’s not ideal going down to five D again in a game like this, but it’s something you have to work through.”

The Wild were off Saturday following an 0-2 road trip through Utah and Colorado. That also sent forwards Marat Khusnutdinov and Liam Ohgren down to Iowa on Saturday. It was the first demotion for Khusnutdinov since he came to the Wild from the KHL last season.

Guerin is scheduled to speak to reporters before Sunday’s 2:30 p.m. puck drop at Xcel Energy Center.