The Minnesota Wild brought forward Mason Shaw back from Iowa on Wednesday, with President of Hockey Operations and General Manager Bill Guerin making the move official.
Shaw, 27, has been one of Iowa’s most productive players this season. In nine games with the AHL club, he has nine points, with three goals and six assists, along with 13 penalty minutes and 29 shots on goal.
He leads the team in points, assists, penalty minutes and shots, and is tied for the team lead in goals. Across the AHL, he ranks tied for ninth among forwards in both points and assists.
The 5-foot-10, 186-pound center from Wainwright, Alberta, also wears the captain’s “C” for Iowa. Last season with the Manitoba Moose, he put up 44 points in 71 games, finishing as the team leader in points and assists while serving as captain. That came after a long run in the AHL that has made him one of the more experienced names on the Iowa roster.
Shaw has appeared in 82 career NHL games over parts of three seasons, all with Minnesota, and has 20 points there. His best NHL stretch came in 2022-23, when he set personal highs in games played, points, goals and assists, finishing with 17 points in 59 games. In the minors, he has piled up 211 points and 407 penalty minutes in 349 career AHL games across parts of 10 seasons with Manitoba and Iowa, and he sits sixth on the all-time Iowa Wild points list with 130.
He has also produced in the playoffs, with three goals in 10 career Calder Cup Playoff games across two postseason trips. Internationally, Shaw has represented Canada at multiple events, most recently recording one goal in three games while serving as an alternate captain at the 2025 Spengler Cup.
Minnesota drafted Shaw in the fourth round, No. 97 overall, in 2017, and he wears No. 18 with the Wild. The team is set to play at the Seattle Kraken tonight at 9 p.m. CT on Wild+ and KFAN FM 100.3.
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