The Minnesota Wild made a splash about a week before the holiday trade on a Friday night once they landed Quinn Hughes from the Minnesota Wild for Zeev Buium, Marco Rossi, Liam Ohgren, and a primary 2026 first-round choose. That’s how aggressive Wild GM Bill Guerin was, realizing his group would have cap area to work with going ahead.
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We noticed what Guerin did with Kirill Kaprizov, signing him to an eight-year, $17 million-per-season deal. And with the feedback by Quinn Hughes, the chance could possibly be greater than he finally ends up extending within the offseason. Nonetheless, the Wild are centered on the right here and now. With the property and cap area as weapons, the expectation is that they aren’t carried out including.
As Anthony Di Marco of the Daily Faceoff stated on TSN Radio in Montreal, when requested whether or not Quinn Hughes was a prelude to one thing else, he stated there’s extra to return in Minnesota.
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Host: “Anthony, I have a look, and also you alluded to it, the potential playoff matchups. So now there’s little doubt that you just’re a greater group with Quinn Hughes than you have been earlier than you acquired him, however you’re missing just a little bit at middle depth, particularly in case you match up in opposition to the Stars within the first spherical, after which in case you get out of that, in all probability the Avalanche within the second spherical. So, is that this a precursor to perhaps one other transfer with that prospect pool you’re speaking about?”
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Anthony Di Marco: “I believe so. Like, I spoke to a Minnesota supply on Saturday, they usually instructed me flat out, like, yeah, we nonetheless have cap area. What do you assume this deal means? And I absolutely count on the Minnesota Wild to be one of many extra aggressive groups between now and the commerce deadline in early March. So for me right here, I’m going to take a look at each middle in the marketplace and join them to the Minnesota Wild now.
And for me, my thoughts goes to Nazem Kadri particularly, as a result of I do know that the Minnesota Wild, like Kadri as a participant. He’s received a Stanley Cup, he has price certainty as nicely. And I believe that could be a development right here, as Sean has alluded to, that maybe the Minnesota Wild aren’t trying only for leases.
Like they’re going to take main swings and add gamers to the inspiration of the group for the subsequent a number of years, and if they’re in a window proper now that follows the trajectory of Quinn Hughes contract, perhaps it’s this yr and subsequent.
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And like they’ve in all probability the perfect goaltending tandem within the NHL. There’s a case to be made that they now have the perfect prime 4 on the again finish within the NHL, and now you want some assist up entrance. Like Joel Eriksson-Ek is now their de facto first-line middle. You continue to are dropping a top-six middle in Marco Rossi, though they by no means have been extraordinarily excessive on him by all accounts in Minnesota.
However I believe you desperately want a shot within the arm down the center right here, and I absolutely count on Invoice Guerin to take a serious swing at that between now and the interval deadline.”
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