After missing the Wild’s season-opening, two-game road trip, veteran winger Zach Parise was back on the ice for Monday’s practice.

Parise was a full go, skating on the fourth line alongside Matt Cullen and opposite Daniel Winnik. He wasn’t limited in any capacity and even made it through a conditioning test that coach Bruce Boudreau conducted at the end of practice.

“It was good,” Parise said. “Just nice to get back into a group setting instead of skating by myself.”

It marked the first time Parise had been cleared for full contact after practicing intermittently with the team throughout training camp.

Parise claimed the injury that kept him out wasn’t his back, though he declined to provide further detail as to what the injury was.

“I’m optimistic that I’m out of the woods now, and I can move on from it,” he said. “It’s not something that I’ll tell. I’m not going to say what it was.”

Parise also wouldn’t put a timetable on when he’d return to the lineup.

“I think everything’s open,” he said. “It’s more so waiting until it feels 100 percent. I feel like I’ve been playing too much lately at below 100 percent, and it gets to be a challenge after a while. … I’d like to feel good going into the season and not be worried about an injury.”

Parise said the injury itself “kind of came out of nowhere” a couple weeks before training camp.

“Just started flaring up a little bit,” Parise said. “It was weird because it would come and go, and I skated with the team a couple times thinking it was gone, and it would show up again. So had to take some time off and let it calm down.”

Parise said the last month or so has been hard on him, especially considering he had what he felt was a good offseason.

“You have that excitement coming into camp, and (you’re) ready to play, and then there’s a little setback early,” Parise said. “Hopefully it’s gone, and it’s something I can move on from and not have to worry about and not have it linger throughout the season.”

Asked about Parise over the weekend, coach Bruce Boudreau implied that the Wild’s $98 million man could return to the lineup for the Oct. 14 home opener against the Columbus Blue Jackets, which would mean missing Thursday night’s game at Chicago as he works back toward 100 percent.

“If all things go well, hopefully he’ll be ready to play by next weekend,” Boudreau said at the time. “That is where we’re at on the injury parade.”

Asked the same thing about Parise on Monday afternoon, the 62-year-old coach backtracked a little bit, noting that it’s out of his control.

“I have no clue,” Boudreau said. “He’s going to be the one (along with) the trainers and the doctors that are going to be saying, ‘Hey, I’m ready to play.’ Not me.”