NEWARK, N.J. — A glance at the Wild roster will tell you that when backup goalie Marc-Andre Fleury retired earlier this year, Jesper Wallstedt took his place in the Minnesota crease. But Fleury’s jokes and pranks also kept him light-hearted off the ice.

Tough guy winger Marcus Foligno has taken that position.

A case in point came on the team’s recent road trip. At a hotel in Dallas, one night around bedtime, Foligno took the time to call every member of the team, on speaker, with a camera recording it all, to wish each of them a good night. The teammates’ reactions varied from sincere thanks to confusion to insider knowledge that a prank must be in the works.

“I knew something was up,” Wild rookie defenseman Zeev Buium said a few days later, after the “goodnight buddy” video was posted

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