What I would like to see

Created by: RazWild

Team: 2021-22 Minnesota Wild

Initial Creation Date: Jul. 30, 2021

Published: Jul. 30, 2021

Salary Cap Mode: Basic

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Left Handed

Original Team

Waivers Exempt

Right Handed

Position

Trade Clause

Max Perf. Bonus

Expiry Status

Term Remaining

McDavid, Connor

$12,500,000 ( Performance Bonus

$250,000)

NMC

UFA - 5

Description

This is just what I would like to see happen. Gusev and Kase would give us some much needed right handed winger options and should be pretty cheap. I'm not set on them being given 2 year contracts either, I could easily see them on 1 year deals too. Both can compete with Boldy and make sure he’s earned a spot on the team, but gives us an extra 13th forward option either way. Much like Merrill's addition doesn't guarantee Addison a spot, in which the loser likely becomes the 7th dman.

I left a little wiggle room in the cap should we need it later. I also put Daemon Hunt on the Taxi squad because it no longer exists and he's going back to the CHL this year. O'Rourke still might as well. Rossi plays in the AHL but possibly could get called up once he’s settled in somewhat.

Free Agent Signings

RFA	YEARS	CAP HIT
Bitten, Will	2	$750,000
Shaw, Mason	2	$856,000
Fiala, Kevin	4	$6,600,000
Kaprizov, Kirill	5	$7,800,000

UFA		YEARS	CAP HIT
Gusev, Nikita		2	$1,100,000
Kase, Ondrej		2	$1,000,000

Trades

MIN

Dvorak, Christian

ARI

Greenway, Jordan
Khovanov, Alexander
Rask, Victor
2022 2nd round pick (MIN)
2023 3rd round pick (MIN)

Buyouts

Zach Parise: $2,371,794
Ryan Suter: $2,371,794

Draft	Round 1	Round 2	Round 3	Round 4	Round 5	Round 6	Round 7
2022
2023
2024

ROSTER

LONG-TERM OUTLOOK

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ROSTER SIZE	SALARY CAP	CAP HIT	OVERAGES	BONUSES	CAP SPACE
22	$81,500,000	$77,186,088	$0	$732,500	$4,313,912

Left Wing	Centre	Right Wing
Zuccarello, Mats $6,000,000$6,000,000 RW, LW NMC UFA - 3	Dvorak, Christian $4,450,000$4,450,000 C UFA - 4	Kaprizov, Kirill $7,800,000$7,800,000 LW UFA - 5
Gusev, Nikita $1,100,000$1,100,000 RW, LW UFA	Eriksson Ek, Joel $5,250,000$5,250,000 C UFA - 8	Fiala, Kevin $6,600,000$6,600,000 RW, LW UFA - 1
	Sturm, Nico $725,000$725,000 C UFA - 1	Hartman, Ryan $1,700,000$1,700,000 C, RW UFA - 3
Boldy, Matthew $880,833$880,833 ($600,000$600K) RW, LW UFA - 2	Gaudreau, Frédérick $1,200,000$1,200,000 C, LW UFA - 2	Bjugstad, Nick $900,000$900,000 C, RW UFA - 1
Foligno, Marcus $3,100,000$3,100,000 RW, LW UFA - 3

Left Defense	Right Defense	Goaltender
Brodin, Jonas $6,000,000$6,000,000 LD NMC UFA - 7	Dumba, Matt $6,000,000$6,000,000 RD M-NTC UFA - 2	Talbot, Cam $3,666,667$3,666,667 G UFA - 2
Goligoski, Alex $5,000,000$5,000,000 LD/RD NMC UFA - 1	Spurgeon, Jared $7,575,000$7,575,000 RD NMC UFA - 6	Kähkönen, Kaapo $725,000$725,000 G UFA - 1
Kulikov, Dmitry $1,125,000$1,125,000 LD/RD M-NTC UFA - 2	Merrill, Jon $850,000$850,000 LD UFA - 1

Scratches	Injured Reserve (IR)	Long Term IR (LTIR)
Kase, Ondrej $1,000,000$1,000,000 RW UFA - 1
Addison, Calen $795,000$795,000 ($132,500$132K) RD RFA - 2

Taxi Squad
Hunt, Daemon $850,833$850,833 ($0$0$0$0) LD RFA - 4

Top Comments

Jul. 30, 2021 at 5:03 p.m.

MNCountryClub

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Def agree with the idea of a cheap RH depth forward for the exact reasons you suggested. Makes too much sense given the low risk (especially if it’s a 1 year).

The Dvorak of package is a tad rich for my blood, but I also think it’s probably accurate to market. Any less may be a losing package.

We’re in a weird spot as a team.

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Jul. 30, 2021 at 5:08 p.m.

RazWild

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Edited Jul. 30, 2021 at 5:24 p.m.

Quoting: drmantalban

Keep in mind it's meant to be a tad rich by design. We are dumping Rask in this package as well.

They way I look at it is it’s Greenway, Khovanov, and the 2022 2nd for Dvorak himself. The 2023 3rd is to dump Rask.

I think Gusev and Kase would be good additions. I think they would both fit in well. I really like Kase's upside, he's just unfortunately too injury prone.

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Jul. 30, 2021 at 5:11 p.m.

JayTea

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Quoting: drmantalban

Dvorak trade seems like it would be fine removing 1 piece from it but tbh I have no idea what Arizona is trying to do long-term. They're clearly taking on bad contracts with a year left to collect picks, but are they entering a full-on rebuild? Seems that way with them shipping out Kuemper.

Edit: as far as the team posted, I don't hate it. It seems reasonable and it would be a better team than they iced last year so who knows what they'd end up doing. Guessing that's what Kaprizov signs for, but sadly I'd bet on it only being 3 years at that AAV.

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Jul. 30, 2021 at 5:23 p.m.

RazWild

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Quoting: JayTea

Think Kap gets about a million less if it's less than 4 years. Imo.

Jul. 30, 2021 at 5:38 p.m.

MNCountryClub

Joined: May 2021

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@jaytea @razwild

Out of curiosity, do either of you listen to Worst Seats, and if so have you caught the latest episode? Russo and Pants dig into the Kap contract a bit, and both of them vehemently agree that it’s better to let him sit in the KHL and say good riddance vs. sign him to a 3 year. Their argument is that the principle exceeds whatever trade value you’d get from him.

My jaw was on the floor.

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