Fans love Rossi

“It would be madness to let him go now”

Marco Rossi comes up trumps in the NHL with Minnesota.(Bild: AP/ASSOCIATED PRESS)

There's no getting around Marco Rossi at the moment. His face smiles from numerous banners, his jersey is popular, his name regularly appears on the scoring list of his Minnesota Wild. The "Krone" takes a local look at Austria's NHL star.

The first face you see when you get off the airport bus 7600 kilometers away from home looks familiar. It's Marco Rossi, his likeness fluttering in the wind on a flag in front of the northwest entrance to the Xcel Energy Center, home of the Minnesota Wild. On the walk towards the hotel in the seemingly deserted city of Saint Paul, he looks down again - this time at a traffic circle: Give way to Rossi!