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"How do the Wild get a compensatory pick for Johansson? I thought they had to make an offer for that to apply. I am assuming they didn’t. Am I missing something? — Kristopher M.
OK, I did some checking on this because the CBA is not clear, but basically, if you draft a Canadian junior, after the first year, you make a bona fide offer that few in their right mind would ever accept anyway. As for college and European players, you hold their rights for four years. On June 1, the league will check to see if you’re signing those players. Because Johansson is a 2018 first-rounder, if Minnesota tells the NHL on June 1 it’s not signing him, the Wild will automatically get a compensatory pick in the second round. He was 24th overall, so add 32 spots from there and that’ll be where they’d pick in Round 2 assuming no other 2018 first-rounders aren’t signed as well.
So, once and for all, because I’ve written it and said it wrong in the past: The Wild have not and probably will not have to make him a bona fide offer."
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