Minnesota Wild General Discussion V
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Dickie Dunn
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ROR trade seems to be an indication of a pretty lowball market. Not surprising now that nothing has happened.
1) I like that they hired Tom Kurvers, but they need to make more adjustments to their front office. It's now been a few weeks since the end of the draft. It's time to start re-hauling their front office (and yes, I know that Fletcher extended a lot of front office people, but it doesn't seem to matter). Minnesota is also one of - if not the only - team to have three Assistant GMs. Generally teams only run 1-2 GMs. But more scouts, adjustments to the player development team.
2) More concrete rumors than some vague non-sense of Minnesota may or not be looking at trades. I'm not saying, player X, Y or Z - but more like Minnesota is specifically targeting x type of player on x team. The A.A trade rumor is interesting and more of what I want to hear from a team wanting to make 'tweaks'.
3) A little more of the road plan for the future. The only substantial player up for contract renewal is Staal next year and I have this fear that we are not going to move him at the deadline, because we are right in the middle of a playoff run.
Honestly, as much as it pains me to say this, I honestly think we should have stuck with GMCF if this was going to be our offseason until he got us bounced out of the playoffs. It seems that we are stuck with the same old, same old here.
Lackluster first round pick (picking safe players that have low ceilings), fiddling with the bottom 6 and that's about it.
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Not if you look at it from the other perspective. If Berglund, Sobodtka, and a decent prospect gets you O'reilly? Nino Foligno and Kunin should have a ton of value?
Also a disgruntled player isn't going to get you a ton of value. Everyone knew that Ryan O'Reilly was on his way out. Sobodtka could be flipped at the deadline. Tage is young. Berglund might end up being a solid player for them.
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Minnesnota
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Here's my question:
If all it took was a 2019 1st, 2021 second, 2 30+ year old 30pt centers, and the 6th best prospect the Blues had to land ROR - why weren't the Wild in on him?
The Blues were able to unload $7.3m in cap space with Sobotka and Berglund so they could acquire a guy with a $7.5m cap hit. Those picks will likely be late rounders. Thompson is a decent prospect but nothing to be concerned with losing.
Coyle, Foligno, Kloos, 2019 2nd, 2021 2nd - I'd have been happy to give that up for ROR. Would've forced Fenton to move one of Staal/Zucker/Nino/Spurgeon and we finally would've seen the shake up this team needs.
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Probably because Buffalo wanted centers coming back. Even middle-6 centers would do. Wild probably only offered wingers.
Buffalo is going to run Eichel-Berglund-Soboka down the middle. Not great but is it honestly any worse than the Wild at center?
Minnesnota
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This is wrong.
They'll be running Eichel-Mittelstadt-Berglund down the middle. Sobotka will most likely be their 3rd line LW with Girgensons as their 4C.
Eichel-Mittelstadt-Berglund is better than Staal-Koivu-Ek??
Minnesnota
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I've got a few co-workers who are Buffalo fans and they're hyping up that team hard right now lol.
Sheary - Eichel - Reinhart
Rodrigues/Nylander - Mittelstadt - Okposo
seems to be their consensus top 6. not bad. Okposo is a grandpa compared to those guys.
Don't really care what Russo and LaPanta said on KFAN on Friday. This team is probably not making the playoffs this year. Central is deep as all get out. It'll take the Pacific to have a meltdown again and to get a WC position in my opinion. The only team that feels to have been lateral with us, has been Chicago in my eyes.
Minnesnota
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Vegas, San Jose, Anaheim, Nashville, Winnipeg, St. Louis are all 100% making the playoffs this year and I will die on that hill.
That leaves 2 spots between Flames, Wild, Kings, Avalanche, Blackhawks, Stars.
Can anyone say with certainty that the Wild would be 1 of those 2 teams?
That leaves 2 spots between Flames, Wild, Kings, Avalanche, Blackhawks, Stars.
Can anyone say with certainty that the Wild would be 1 of those 2 teams?
I think the Pacific is wide open, the Nuks are the only team that looks like there is no chance to me. It wouldn't really surprise me if AZ, EDM, and CGY took the top 3 spot in the Division.
All of the Central teams could be in the mix for at least the WC and it'll probably come down to which teams have the best goaltending. The Blues Allen/Jonhson combo is questionable; that's why I don't have them at 100%.
No reason to believe we won’t make it if healthy. The only team that gave us trouble this last year was Winnipeg and we were NOT healthy for much of the season.
Saga of the Elk
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The Wild surrendered 21 goals in four games (scored six) against the Avs going 1-3 (one shootout win). That's not trouble?
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Wild also surrendered the 4th most Goals Against in franchise history and the most since 2010-2011.
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