Wild's Parise suffers upper-body injury during Tuesday's loss to Penguins
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The Minnesota Wild fell to the Pittsburgh Penguins on Tuesday, and lost one of their top forwards to injury in the process.
Head coach Mike Yeo revealed after the 4-1 loss that Zach Parise suffered an upper-body injury and will be further evaluated on Wednesday.
Parise saw only 12:50 of ice time being being forced out of the game with the injury.
In 11 games this season, he recorded four points and six assists to lead the Wild in scoring.
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