Wild open camp with 58 players

The Minnesota Wild opened its 2015-16 Pre-Season Training Camp with a total of 58 players — 31 forwards; 18 defensemen, seven goaltenders and two players who will start out on the Injured Reserve list.

Among those, that began preparing for the new season Friday (Sept. 18) at the Xcel Energy Center in St. Paul were 22 that impressed with their showing at the Prospect Tournament that wrapped up at Traverse City, MI earlier in the week.

The team held a practice and scrimmage open to the public Sept. 19 and began preparing for its first pre-season game scheduled for Sept. 22.

Listed below is the full roster as of the start of the Minnesota Wild Training Camp in positional and numerical order

Forwards – 31

#3 Charlie Coyle; #9 Mikko Koivu; #10 Jordan Schroeder; #11 Zach Parise; #12 Ruslan Fedotenko; #14 Justin Fontaine; #16 Jason Zucker; #18 Ryan Carter; #19 Zac Dalpe; #22 Nino Niederreiter; #26 Thomas Vanek; #27 Brett Sutter; #29 Jason Pominville; #36 Michael Keranen; #42 Matt Carey; #45 Marc Hagel; #47 Christoph Bertschy; #48 Jared Knight; #49 Raphael Bussieres; #53 Tyler Graovac; #54 Brett Bulmer; #56 Eric Haula; #59 Zack Mitchell; #62 Brady Brassart; #63 Kurtis Gabriel; #64 Mikael Granlund; #71 Jack Walker; #75 Reid Duke; #76 Chase Lang; #81 Pavel Jenys; #83 Tanner Eberle.

Defense – 18

#4 Mike Reilly; #5 Christian Folin; #6 Marco Scandella; #20 Ryan Suter; #23 Gustav Olofsson; #24 Matt Dumba; #25 Jonas Brodin; #28 Tyson Strachan; #34 Guillaume Gelinas; #37 Maxime Fortunus; #28 Gustave Bourraman; #39 Nate Prosser; #46 Jared Spurgeon; #52 Zach Palmquist; #68 Alex Gudbranson; #73 Tanner Faith; #78 Dylan Labbe; #79 Hunter Warner.

Goaltenders – 7 

#30 Leland Irving; #32 Niklas Backstrom; #33 Kevin Lalande; #35 Darcy Kuemper; #40 Devan Dubnyk; #50 Stephen Michalek; #70 Brody Hoffman.

Injured – 2 

#61 Grayson Downing; #74 Sam Warning.