Granlund travelled with the club on its two-game road trip to Winnipeg and Calgary over the weekend, getting strenuous work each game-day morning, but did not scratch the lineup.
After a day off on Sunday, Granlund was out there again, participating in a full practice in a green jersey and skating on a line with familiar faces Mikko Koivu and Jason Zucker.
"You really want to play and it's not easy to watch it when all the boys are playing, but it is what it is," Granlund said. "The boys did a good job in Calgary and now we're back home, and hopefully we're getting guys back too, it's just good to be out there."
Granlund wasn't sure if he'll be in the lineup on Tuesday, nor was Wild coach Bruce Boudreau, who said he's been hopeful of such an addition prior to each of the past couple of games.
"I hope it's tomorrow, but I thought it was on Friday and I thought it was on Saturday too," Boudreau said. "If it's tomorrow, great. If it's Thursday, great. The sooner we get him in the lineup the better it is for our team."
Granlund's eventual re-addition to the lineup would lengthen a group that has been able to weather quite the storm over the first two weeks of the campaign.
Zucker said nobody is satisfied with a 2-2-2 record after six games, but considering the sheer volume of injuries, the players involved in them, and the fact that five of the first six games have been played away from home, Minnesota has been able to keep itself afloat.
With a season-long six-game homestand set to begin against the Vancouver Canucks on Tuesday, the goal now is to build on the win in Calgary on Saturday and start to "make hay while the sun shines," as Boudreau so aptly put on Saturday.
"We've gotta come home and make sure that we make a statement in these six games," Zucker said. "Anytime you go .500 on the road, that's a good thing, but at the same time, I don't think we're satisfied with it and I think every guy in the room would tell you the same thing. We want to make sure that we come out and make a statement in these six games and come across with a great record at the end of these two weeks."