As Wild hit latest low, Mike Modano conspicuously watches...
Some excerpts...
Some excerpts...
The highest-scoring U.S.-born player in NHL history and the No. 1 overall pick in the 1988 draft by the once-beloved Minnesota North Stars has hung around the Wild a handful of times the past three months. According to sources, Modano met with Wild owner Craig Leipold and his brain trust, including team president Matt Majka, back in December. He has also watched a couple games with Leipold in recent months.
On Sunday afternoon, Modano conspicuously sat smack in between general manager Paul Fenton and assistant GM Tom Kurvers in a jam-packed GM’s booth during the Wild’s painful 4-0 loss to the red-hot St. Louis Blues.
Fenton and Modano spent the entire second intermission and pretty much all of the third period confabbing.
With the Stars, Modano didn’t work in hockey operations. If he’s actually willing to leave Arizona for Minnesota, it would seem unlikely Modano would go to such an extent for merely an ambassador-like job where he’d be visiting youth programs, delivering season tickets and shaking hands of stakeholders.
One would think he’d either be angling for a president or executive vice president of hockey operations role akin to Joe Sakic in Colorado or Brendan Shanahan in Toronto, a front-office advisory role or very possibly a mixed bag of several roles inside the hockey and business ops departments.
