Bien sûr, le Wild du Minnesota devrait se concentrer sur le fait de devenir plus jeune et plus rapide, alors qu’il se prépare à l’arrivée des pénalités de Parise et Suter avant la saison 2025-26. Ils ont quelques jeunes espoirs d’élite comme Danila Yurov, Riley Heidt et Liam Ohgren, qui seront tous sur le point de contribuer d’ici là.
Leur plus gros problème est qu’ils sont vieux, lents et coincés avec une liste remplie de vétérans gros et satisfaits des clauses de non-échange dans leurs contrats, grâce aux faibles tentatives de Guerin de constituer une liste gagnante maintenant sans argent. Néanmoins, il semble sur le point de doubler la mise sur ces anciens combattants vieillissants, au moins pour un an de plus.
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Skol-Man14
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Bruh what is this tone for? this is the free agent market it’s not for young players it’s old players and players looking for a big payday.
Also of course the Wild are gonna try to stay competitive signing a veteran top 6 winger would make sense considering the Wild need their second line to start performing.
If the young guns ain’t ready and the Wild don’t want to trade for a big piece and possibly give up assets why wouldn’t they go into the free agent market and grab somebody for a year? That makes lots of sense and there is a very good list of players for the Wild to try and tempt.
I read that earlier this afternoon.
The tone of that article is the most angsty of Redditors and Hockey Wildnerness posters.
We get it. The team gets it. No one is forcing you be a fan of a team that (by the article’s interpretation) is a dead end, waste of time, and SHOULD do something. There are 31 other teams. That writer is free to bandwagon elsewhere anytime.
Not saying people don’t have the right to complain sometimes, but seriously. Lighten up a little for fuck sake.
When are they not?
I still want nothing to do with Perron, I just can’t handle us handing a ton of ice time to a freaking 36 year old! What the hell is wrong with slotting in Ohgren into the second line with Rossi and Zucc? How does it help us in the future to push these old ass guys?
I’m so bloody bored of « Pissy Angry Minnesota Sports Fan » writers.
That hack Tony Abbot does it, this guy does it, it just becomes exhausting to read and makes me click away.
You’re not being clever, sly, or suave. It’s just aggravating.
Who needs skill when you can have GRIT
I love how Guerin somehow while handicapped built a team that did compete for a playoff spot for many years and now that we’re about to be rid of said handicap it’s all of a sudden a problem that that was the plan. Like did you need a cup during those years? That’d be more impressive than an oilers win tomorrow night.
I’d be stoked if the Wild traded for Travis Konecny.
I’m so tired of the negativity, and the basic lack of understanding of the teams’ situation and what they can and can’t do with the cap penalties.
**The Wild’s options for FAs are**:
-sign a vet that is comfortable playing on a short-term deal or
-no one
Those are the options. The team has virtually no cap space. They can’t sign anyone long-term until 2025, and no young skilled FA would sign for cheap for one year. You want another year of missing the playoffs? Think Kaprizov stays? Guerin is going to try and bring in a vet for one year (the horror) to see if they might help get the team to an 7-8 seed in the west.
After that, here are the everyday players/competing to be everyday players on the roster that are 27 or younger: JEEK (27), Kaprizov (27), Boldy (23), Rossi (22), Declan Chisolm (24), Brock Faber (21), Liam Ohgren (20), Marat Khusnutinov (21), Filip Gustavsson (26), Jesper Wallstedt (21). Riley Heidt will have a legitimate chance in camp to make the club (he’s 19). There are 2-3 D prospects in Iowa under 21 that are probably a year away from competing for a fulltime spot with Minnesota. Are the above players « fat and happy old slow aging vets »??
If I have to see 500 more sarcastic « GRIT » posts or « this team only signs/rosters old slow players » my head is going to explode.
For those that can’t seem to let go of the 3 vet signings last year, the Wild would have to sign a different 3-4 mill/yr FA to take their places this year if they’d have walked or been traded (ps none of their trade values would’ve been very high at the trade deadline last year). Adam Beckman wasn’t filling their spot. I would put my whole mortgage on the line to bet 1 or 2 of the 3 (Zucarello, Hartman, and Foligno) won’t be on the team for their full contract extentions. They don’t have full NMC/NTCs for all 4 years.
I can’t wait for 2025 so the 50% of the fanbase that can’t bother themselves to learn about roster construction while being down $14 mill/yr can stop posting « GRIT » every day.
Leipold didn’t want a tear down and tank job – that’s been clear from the very beginning.
Kaprizov, our most coveted prospect at the time, didn’t want that either.
This team was always going to try and fight for the playoff hunt despite the massive cap penalties from Suter/Parise.
Guerin took the job and was in alignment with Leipold from the start and very likely has a lot of slack left because of the aforementioned cap restraints.
Billy is going to be judged with what he does with the flexibility going forward.
BREAKING: hockey teams want good players
Honestly I would rather see Billy make some trades then pick up an aging Tarasenko, who I do like, or similar player. Make a meaningful trade that helps us now and in the future not a bunch of short term and minor league deals, something with excitement. One year left until most the cap penalty is gone for 11/20, let’s get this ball rolling. This will never happen but we should look for guys like these I think.
Do you think we could trade Rossi + Jojo + a 2nd or 3rd for Dylan Strome, he’s 27, 6 inches taller than Rossi with a friendly 5 million AAV until 2028, plug in as 2C? Capitals might have some trouble with the cap going forward (RIP capfriendly), they would gain some space and get in Rossi what should be a similar ppg player as Strome down the road (they traded for PLD to play with 8 from the sounds of it), familiarity with Jojo and a pick to sweeten the deal.
I would rather see a trade for a guy who might need a change of scenery too, what would it take to get a guy like Kent Johnson, he’s been in the rumor mill before. Could we send Gus + Chisholm + a 3rd or 4th and get him? I don’t know anything about Tarasov but Merzlinkins might need a decent backup to push for ice time after a couple down years, a ready young dman in Chisholm who can move the puck and a sweetener pick. Maybe Tarasov comes over with KJ with a better pick to be in a 3 man rotation with Fleury and Wall? I think Hunt is close to ready so we plug him in on the left of Bogo.
We should have the cap space for a couple trades like that. I think we would be a more skilled team, definitely more size. We’d have to sign a cheap 4th liner or bring up a guy like Heidt, Haight or Kumpulainen. I don’t want to see Lettieri or even bringing back Shaw. Kump is 6-2 191lbs could he step into a 4th line role and give us some size down the middle? I know Yurov will be here soon but we can worry about what to do with him when he get’s here.
*Zuc and Boldy are interchangeable
*Hartman and Foligno are interchangeable
Kaprizov- EK- Zuccy
KJ- Strome- Boldy
Ohgren- Khus- Hartman
Gaudreau- Kump/?- Foligno
Brodin- Faber
Middleton- Spurgeon
Hunt/Merrill- Bogo
Fleury
Wall
Just the direction I’d personally rather see this team going