what could have been

Created by: mnwild17

Team: 2021-22 Minnesota Wild

Initial Creation Date: Nov. 5, 2021

Published: Nov. 5, 2021

Salary Cap Mode: Basic

Legend

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

Granted next year would be tight, but we could make it work

Trades

MIN

Eichel, Jack

VGK

Dumba, Matt
Fiala, Kevin
Khovanov, Alexander
2022 1st round pick (MIN)

Additional Details:

Obviously trade would have been with bufallo

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	$75,122,253	$0	$0	$6,377,747

Left Wing	Centre	Right Wing
Kaprizov, Kirill $9,000,000$9,000,000 LW UFA - 5	Eichel, Jack $10,000,000$10,000,000 C UFA - 5	Zuccarello, Mats $6,000,000$6,000,000 RW, LW NMC UFA - 3
Greenway, Jordan $2,100,000$2,100,000 LW, RW UFA - 1	Eriksson Ek, Joel $5,250,000$5,250,000 C UFA - 8	Foligno, Marcus $3,100,000$3,100,000 RW, LW UFA - 3
Beckman, Adam $894,167$894,167 LW RFA - 3	Hartman, Ryan $1,700,000$1,700,000 C, RW UFA - 3	Duhaime, Brandon $750,000$750,000 RW, LW UFA - 2
Sturm, Nico $725,000$725,000 C UFA - 1	Gaudreau, Frédérick $1,200,000$1,200,000 C, LW UFA - 2
		Bjugstad, Nick $900,000$900,000 C, RW UFA - 1

Left Defense	Right Defense	Goaltender
Brodin, Jonas $6,000,000$6,000,000 LD NMC UFA - 7	Spurgeon, Jared $7,575,000$7,575,000 RD NMC UFA - 6	Talbot, Cam $3,666,667$3,666,667 G UFA - 2
Kulikov, Dmitry $1,125,000$1,125,000 LD/RD M-NTC UFA - 2	Goligoski, Alex $5,000,000$5,000,000 LD/RD NMC UFA - 1	Kähkönen, Kaapo $725,000$725,000 G UFA - 1
	Benn, Jordie $900,000$900,000 LD/RD UFA - 1
Merrill, Jon $850,000$850,000 LD UFA - 1

Scratches	Injured Reserve (IR)	Long Term IR (LTIR)
Pitlick, Rem $917,831$917,831 LW, RW UFA - 1
Rask, Victor $2,000,000$2,000,000 C UFA - 1

Top Comments

Nov. 5, 2021 at 2:20 p.m.

Roysboy72

yippee

Joined: Jul. 2021

Posts: 2,113

Likes: 2,171

I like this trade for Buffalo, but as is the nature of an Eichel trade it can still come back to bite them. Good offer for both sides IMO.

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Nov. 5, 2021 at 2:21 p.m.

Kotkaniemi15

Former Hockey Fan

Joined: Jun. 2017

Posts: 13,144

Likes: 10,516

Why would the cap be tighter next year? You have $9 million of Goligoski and Rask coming off the books.

Nov. 5, 2021 at 2:27 p.m.

csick

KFTW

Joined: Jul. 2018

Posts: 43,265

Likes: 24,115

Buffalo would’ve been targeting younger players IMO. Dumba + Boldy + 1st is what it would’ve taken

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Nov. 5, 2021 at 2:29 p.m.

MNCountryClub

Joined: May 2021

Posts: 2,675

Likes: 1,920

Quoting: Kotkaniemi15

Why would the cap be tighter next year? You have $9 million of Goligoski and Rask coming off the books.

Parise Suter buyouts ratcheting wayyyy up.

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Nov. 5, 2021 at 2:32 p.m.

MNCountryClub

Joined: May 2021

Posts: 2,675

Likes: 1,920

I get the sense that MIN was pretty dang close this summer. In listening to Eichel during that Friedman interview and mentioning how he thought MIN was it at one point, it feels like it was even closer than we were lead to believe.

Doesn’t matter now, obviously. I think we’re better for it.

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