Four months after failing to earn a contract because his injured shoulder hadn't fully healed, Ryan Carter will try again.

Carter is expected to join his old Minnesota Wild teammates on the ice Friday, and will skate with the team for the rest of the month on a tryout basis of sorts, sources told Michael Russo of the Minneapolis Star Tribune.

If the Wild deem that Carter isn't suffering ill effects from his surgically repaired labrum, and think he can assist them over the final few months of the season and into the playoffs, they will have the opportunity to sign him for the stretch run.

They'll have to make the decision before March 1 in order for him to be included on the postseason roster.

Carter underwent shoulder surgery at the recommendation of the Wild, an agreement established in good faith.

"(General manager Chuck Fletcher) was really good and fair," he told Russo in September. "He just told me to get surgery, get healthy, and depending where we both stand when I get healthy enough to play, we can go from there. He just said it's not fair to me to play hurt and it's not fair to the coach and team to not know if I can play through it.

"He said they'd help me with surgery, and I don't think they have any responsibility to take care of me, so I appreciate that."

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