The Wild will be fine if they lose Soucy. Just extend Cole or sign a FA 3rd pairing Dman to take his spot. Soucy is going to be a 3rd pairing guy his whole time with the Wild. Menell and Addison will pass Soucy on the Depth chart.
Without expansion, Risto would be a great target for the reasons you said; with expansion, bit tough unless Yandle waives.
Well before he got covid he dominated ice. He was just damn damn good.
you are going to need to show your work on this, because I have yet to see any advanced stat that hast Risto even in the competent category.
That was prior to the UFA deadline. Then his number of teams dropped from two to zero. Florida is buzzing right along, and he's good friends with Yandle. The two were PP magic once upon a time ago. I'm not saying he would waive for FLA but it's not impossible. It's a similar market, and there are people there he's familiar with and comfortable with, and things seem to being headed in the right direction.
Yandle with a NMC I see. Yikes...
For me I would absolutely go 4-4. Ekblad, Weegar, and yandle (forced to) are the givens. But I would much rather protect Forsling or Gudas, than say a vatrano, or Duclair, and that’s no offense to them or anything. Up front it would be Barkov, Huberdeau, Verhaeghe, and either Duclair or vatrano as the 4th. I wouldn’t be opposed to protecting Hornqvist but given his age and contract I think it’s unlikely he’ll get claimed so I imagine they’ll use that spot for a guy like Duclair who’s still an rfa or vatrano. Tippett and Loustarinen are exempt and Wennberg is a free agent. If they protect Duclair, then vatrano and Hornqvist will be upfront. Along with either Forsling or Gudas (the one left exposed) on defense.
No need for retention from Florida: with LtIR, we have like 26M in cap space at deadline
