All Things 2025 Minnesota Wild Offseason

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upnorthkid said:
If you could spend a lot so Eichel hits the market next year and we can throw the bag at him, I’d appreciate it

We too like to spend, we just do it poorly and on guys we think have nostalgia and are “one of us”
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I expect Eichel to sign his extension in the next 15-30 days, but who knows?
 


Again, not having followed the Wild SUPER closely, just peripherally, it's odd seeing them missing so many draft picks and what do they have to show for those picks? I'd have to dig to see who they acquired to give up some of those picks?

Makes the NHL draft a lot less fun to watch (VGK also) when your team isn't making hardly any picks.

With their first pick (#52) in this year's draft, the Wild pick a blue-liner from Sweden;

Wild Select Theodor Hallquisth at #52
 










Gophers1992 said:
Of interest to Ogee - rumors of a Mitch Marner trade to VGK being imminent.
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The problem is, they've been imminent for the last day or two. I expect it to get done today sometime. Toronto I think is trying to play some last minute hardball, rumors of them threatening to cry "Tampering!" if there's no trade and Vegas just signs Marner tomorrow when Free Agency opens up.

Vegas sends Nic Roy to Toronto for the rights to Marner; there will likely be some other minor things thrown in possibly on one side of the equation or the other.

The question I'm wondering is would THAT make Vegas done or do they still have one more move in store, after trading D-man Nic Hague to Nashville late last night? For a guy that played 95% of his time on the 3rd pair Defense for Vegas, Nashville gave Haguerbomb 4 years at $5.5M/year. Holy shit. I would have been disappointed if Vegas kept him at anything over $3.5M/year.
 


Gophers1992 said:
Very interesting. Can't say this excites me a ton given how bad he was last year, but I guess we can hope that was an anomaly as he was still fairly productive prior to Detroit.
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1 year left at $4.75M; probably not bad value, and probably good ammunition for a trade deadline deal if the Wild want to move him for assets, if the season somehow doesn't turn out as they planned.
 

Ogie Ogilthorpe said:
Interesting!

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1 year so its kind of whatever but this trade does nothing for me. Cost us nothing in a bleh market unless the future considerations are a whole lot more and if he has a rebound year, nbd as he's still old and not going to get a mega deal. Wild just really need to not do the stupid thing and overpay for a center for this year that has no business in the top 6.

Taking a 1 year rental in a trade from someone to spot fill in at center while you bring back Rossi with the idea he's a 3rd center in the future is fine. Going to be another year in peri-contender land it looks like
 



Ogie Ogilthorpe said:
1 year left at $4.75M; probably not bad value, and probably good ammunition for a trade deadline deal if the Wild want to move him for assets, if the season somehow doesn't turn out as they planned.
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think he's got a restricted trade list from what I've read, so don't know if he'll be worth a ton but agree it's fine for a 1 year rental
 


Gophers1992 said:
Of interest to Ogee - rumors of a Mitch Marner trade to VGK being imminent.
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Ogie Ogilthorpe said:
The problem is, they've been imminent for the last day or two. I expect it to get done today sometime. Toronto I think is trying to play some last minute hardball, rumors of them threatening to cry "Tampering!" if there's no trade and Vegas just signs Marner tomorrow when Free Agency opens up.
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And there it is...

 


upnorthkid said:
Ogie you're going to have to tell me how they're going to pull off the cap gymnastics to make this work. Who's missing this season? :D

Also you have plenty of centers. Share with us.
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Well, one Center, Nic Roy, is heading to Toronto in the trade.

Most notably, D-man Alex Pietrangelo has injuries that will require multiple surgeries I have heard. He has two years left on his deal, $8.8M/year and I think it's likely he never plays a game in the NHL again. At the very least he will miss over one year. He's 35 years old, a big time family man, had a very serious health scare with one of his young daughters a year or so ago (encephalitis?) she was lucky to live. I would guess he'll be fine hanging it up after a great career and multiple Stanley Cups

I don't even think they are done yet, but any more moves would require sending money OUT and I don't know who that would be, outside of maybe Ivan Barbashev. Tomas Hertl has been mentioned but I don't think he's going anywhere
 

There's something else that Vegas has done in recent years with draft picks. I'm not going to say they pioneered it but I think the option has been on the table for just the last 4-6 years or so (??) and they sure seem to have done it a lot.

Vegas has used draft picks to get people to retain salary in some of these deals. The deal late last night with Nashville, they sent Nic Hague to Nashville for two players, but also sent a conditional 3rd rounder (a 2nd rounder if they make it to the WCF) to Nashville for the Preds retaining half ($1.4M) of the salary of one of those players.

More notably, in the deal to obtain Tomas Hertl from San Jose last year, they threw in a 1st round draft pick for San Jose to retain 17% of Hertl's $8.137/yr contract, for EVERY year of that contract which goes 5 more years, leaving Vegas only on the hook for $6.75/yr.

Yes, that's a huge reason Vegas doesn't have much of a prospect pool but DAMN, they get what they want and manage to stay under the cap.
 

Ah I see. Didn’t know about the salary retention stuff. Now that makes more sense where they’re making the dollars work
 

The wild offseason with money turning into a washed up Russian is not very exciting. Can’t wait for the Rossi trade and get back a 2029 3rd for him.
 

Ogie Ogilthorpe said:
Most notably, D-man Alex Pietrangelo has injuries that will require multiple surgeries I have heard. He has two years left on his deal, $8.8M/year and I think it's likely he never plays a game in the NHL again. At the very least he will miss over one year. He's 35 years old, a big time family man, had a very serious health scare with one of his young daughters a year or so ago (encephalitis?) she was lucky to live. I would guess he'll be fine hanging it up after a great career and multiple Stanley Cups
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Well, that seals that up. Pietrangelo done for his career it sounds like. Tough ending, but good on him for making the right call. Yikes! A hip injury that would require bilateral femur reconstruction, with no guarantee of success.

 

Smart to walk away while you still can. And great statement from him and a class act
 



55 posts in this thread now, and 20 have been you, and 13 of those reference Vegas

So, as of your last post, over 37% of the post have been you, and 24% of all posts in this thread are referencing Vegas.

Well done, Captain. I would say I'm surprised, but, well, I'd be lying then wouldn't I....

Gasbag
 

Unregistered User said:
55 posts in this thread now, and 20 have been you, and 13 of those reference Vegas

So, as of your last post, over 37% of the post have been you, and 24% of all posts in this thread are referencing Vegas.
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And to think, I come here daily to see if you've weighed in on the Wild's 3rd line Center situation, or who they might be targeting when Free Agency opens in a few hours.

A few people asked questions, I answered, heaven forbid. You better get over to the Wolves board, there are some posts and even threads over there that mention the Lakers and Knicks. There was a time, a long time ago, when you were funny.... now you're just an angry, TDS-riddled rager with a little too much attention towards me to not make me a little creeped out. Is there an HR office to reach out to on the board?

Free Agency starts in One Hour!!
 

So when does Caedan Bankier and Hunter Haight get the opportunity to be nhl centers? Hurricanes seem to do well with Logan Stankoven around the same time as these too? We draft all these prospects to then sign older veterans to take their spots? With the over pricing on this years weaker nhl free agency. 7 years at 7M doesn't seem so bad for Rossi either, but instead seems like another prospect at 23 years age which went from 40 pts to 60 pts and is a C is going to get away. Seems like Center situation of Rossi, Ek, Haight, Bankier would have some years promise. LW you got Kirill(8 years 15M potential is a huge risk in my opinion), Boldy, Ohgren, Foligno. RW go sign Boeser to go with Yurov, Zuccs, and Taresenko.
 


Ogie Ogilthorpe said:
Well, that seals that up. Pietrangelo done for his career it sounds like. Tough ending, but good on him for making the right call. Yikes! A hip injury that would require bilateral femur reconstruction, with no guarantee of success.

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So did he just walk away from $17M over two years, or does he get at least some of that remaining contract dollars?
 

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