It does? A one year deal is a win for Minnesota? This dude will be arbitration eligible again next year heading into his UFA season the following year. I don’t know if this is a win. It’s a good AAV but the lack of term gives no clarity on his future.
Zucarillo better have a monster year to be tradable at his AAV. I think he carries negative value. Too expensive and old to be of interest to any contender.
The fact that he isn't going to be offered 1 or 2 years will be a substantial hurdle.
If Fiala got short term and Kirill can go back to Moscow. Minnesota doesn’t have much choice. One more year of these two is still a season with these two. See again next off-season.
Because at this point his agent is fully aware that the Wild are not going to go less than 4 years. If that KHL offer is really on the table and 3 years is really a red line for Kaprizov, then the deal would have been signed. Instead they're reportedly moving toward something in the 4-6 year range, which is about what everyone said would happen back when the initial 8-year offer was declined.
Monster year? 6M doesn't buy a monster year.
I’m giving the reality of their situation. Suter buyout on paper didn’t make sense but if he wouldn’t waive his nmc then your only options are to keep him on the roster or buy him out. He was going to get a contract after his buyout which would have put him ahead of just accepting a trade and getting paid his remaining $10 mill. He was also playing ok, overpaid on the cap now but that’s the reality of a long term deal. Discount early then overpaid late.
They can be quite competitive actually, people see the dead cap and automatically make assumptions but the rest of the contracts on the team are actually quite good value, locked in for term at all important positions. The athletic did an analysis recently on cap situations, even including the dead cap, the Wild are in the top half of the league for cap situations due to not having any albatrosses like half the league signed this offseason. The prospect pool is in great shape, just in time for ELCs to balance out the dead cap. This team is still more than capable of competing even after the buyouts.
It’s a bluff. The kid doesn’t want to play there. If he is willing to skip a prime year or his career over whatever issue they’re having with the contract then he’s not the guy they want to build around anyways.
This is total revisionist history. The Kings didn't plan on going into a rebuild. They just stunk so bad they started trading off guys on expiring contracts because it didn't make sense to keep them. They didn't trade Toffoli and Martinez until the 2020 trade deadline, at which point they hadn't won a playoff game in three years. It's nowhere near comparable to where the Wild are right now.
