Minnesota weather: As the week progresses, the temperature starts to rise.

 Minnesota weather: As the week progresses, the temperature starts to rise.

FOX 9 MINNEAPOLIS – As temperatures begin to rise into the 30s this week, Minnesota is starting to emerge from below-freezing conditions.

The state’s warming trend officially begins on Monday, when the Twin Cities sees a high of 32 degrees. There will be a little drop in temperature in northern Minnesota, with highs in some locations just reaching 19 degrees. The mid- to upper-twenties will be the highest temperature in western and southern Minnesota.

In northern and southern Minnesota, Monday will be mostly overcast; in the Twin Cities, it will be partly cloudy.

The rest of the week will see temperatures steadily increase into the mid 30s, with a chance of light rain and snow mix on Thursday.

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The Minnesota Wild has recalled Iowans Jesper Wallstedt and Jake Lucchini.

By Minnesota Wild PR Press Release January 20, 2024 @mnwildPR

Saint Paul, Minnesota — President of Hockey Operations and General Manager of the Minnesota Wild, Bill Guerin, announced today that the team has placed centre Connor Dewar on Injured Reserve (lower body), reassigned defenseman Daemon Hunt to Iowa, and recalled forward Jake Lucchini and goaltender Jesper Wallstedt from the Iowa Wild of the American Hockey League (NHL) under emergency circumstances.

This season, Lucchini, 28, (5/9/95), has skated for Minnesota in four games. The 6-foot, 180-pound product of Trail, British Columbia, has previously featured in 28 games with Iowa during the 2023-24 season, recording 22 points (11-11=22) and eight penalty minutes (PIM). He leads Iowa in goals scored, assists (4), shots (79), power-play goals (4), points (tied), and shots (four).

Lucchini has played in 15 NHL games in his career, split between two seasons with the Ottawa Senators (2022–23) and Minnesota (2020–21), in which he has 16 shots and one point (1-0=1). In his six seasons with Wilkes-Barre/Scranton (2018–20), Laval (2019–21), Belleville (2021-23), and Iowa (2023–24), he has played in 265 AHL games. During that time, he has recorded 159 points (70–89=159), 17 PPGs, nine game-winning goals (GWG), and 583 shots. On July 1, 2023, Lucchini signed a one-year, two-way deal with the Wild. He’s wearing Minnesota on jumper number 27.

On January 10, Wallstedt, 21 (11/14/02), made his NHL debut at Dallas. The 6-foot-3, 214-pound product of Vasteras, Sweden, has played in 21 games with Iowa this season, going 11-10-0 with a 2.61 goals-against average (GAA), a.916 save percentage (SV%), and two shutouts. Wallstedt has been selected Howie’s Hockey Tape/AHL Player of the Week twice in the 2023–2024 season. He is T–8th in the AHL in shutouts and T–10th in SV%. His feats of going 2-0-0 with a 1.50 GAA and.965 SV% in two starts for the week ending Nov. 5 and again for the week ending Dec. 3 earned him the distinction.

In 59 games played over the course of two seasons with Iowa (2022–24), Wallstedt is 29–25–5 with a 2.66 GAA,.911 SV%, and three shutouts in his career. Wallstedt, who wears jumper No. 30 with Minnesota, was initially picked by the Wild in the first round (20th overall) of the 2021 NHL Draft.

Hunt, 21, (5/15/02), made his NHL debut against Washington (10/27) and has played in 12 games for Minnesota this season with 17 blocked shots and one assist. This season, he has participated in 16 games for Iowa and has accumulated nine points (1–8=9) as well as nine penalty minutes (PIM).

In 45 games this season for Minnesota, Dewar, 24, (6/26/99), has tallied nine points (7-2=9), twenty PIM, and forty-three shots.

Tomorrow, January 21, at 4 p.m. CT, The Wild will take on the Carolina Hurricanes on Bally Sports North and KFAN 100.3 FM.

Single-game tickets for the Minnesota Wild are now available via the box office of the Xcel Energy Centre, ticketmaster.com, and wild.com/tickets. Tickets for the half, full, flex, and 11-game seasons are also available for purchase. For further information, please visit tickets.wild.com or get in touch with a Wild Ticket Sales Representative by texting or calling (651) 222-WILD (9453). For further information, group bookings of eight or more tickets may get in touch with [email protected].

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