He didn’t want to come out of Sunday's preseason game when he was hit by the puck, and actually had to be convinced to leave the ice before the final buzzer sounded.
The only reason Rossi, a 21-year-old center from Austria, was in the position to help on the game-winning play was because star winger Kirill Kaprizov left the game with an injury after taking a puck off his foot.
The budding Minnesota Wild superstar did not answer questions Thursday about his offseason in his native Russia, at war with Ukraine after invading its neighbor in February, or whether he had difficulty getting back to the United States.
