Short-handed Wild look for bounce-back performance vs. Sharks

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Minnesota will continue to be short-handed when it visits the San Jose Sharks on Saturday night for the first game of back-to-back road contests for the Wild.

Kirill Kaprizov, who still leads Minnesota in goals (23) and assists (27) despite missing the past seven games with a lower-body injury, did not accompany the Wild on the trip.

Neither did defensemen Jonas Brodin and Brock