The 20-year-old ice hockey talent made his debut in the National Hockey League (NHL) and was able to look forward to a lot of playing time, a good performance and a win with the Minnesota Wild. The Wild ended with a 3-2 at the Boston Bruins the negative run of their last five defeats.
Rossi has earned promotion to the NHL with strong performances in the Iowa Wild farm team, for which he is the top scorer with 23 points in 21 games. In front of his parents who had traveled, the Vorarlberg resident also came into play one step higher.
Coach Dean Evason initially linked the center with Marcus Foligno and Kevin Fiala and was the focus of his first “shift”. Rossi took out a penalty in his first NHL seconds and was then used in the first power play formation – left on the blue line.
But Boston took the lead with the first outnumbered game by Taylor Hall (7th). Minnesota used a double exclusion of the hosts to turn the game around. Kirill Kaprisow per Onetimer (16./PP2) and Nico Sturm, who deflected a Brodin shot (17.), gave Wild a 2-1 lead.
In the middle third, Rossi got a new wing with his same age Iowa strike partner Matt Boldy, who also came to his NHL premiere. Boldy crowned his debut with a goal to 3: 1 (33.), Brad Marchand brought Boston back to 2: 3 (36./PP). In any case, their star striker Kaprisow, who was injured in the middle third after an unnecessary check, gave Minnesota a narrow lead against the onrushing Bruins over time in the final section.
After Reinhard Divis, Christoph Brandner, Thomas Pöck, Thomas Vanek, Andreas Nödl, Michael Grabner and Michael Raffl, who is currently playing for the Dallas Stars, Rossi is the eighth Austrian to play in the NHL.
Source: Nachrichten
