Minny

Team: 2022-23 Minnesota Wild

Initial Creation Date: May 25, 2022

Published: May 25, 2022

Salary Cap Mode: Basic

With having Parise and Suter counting on your salary cap for over 12 million $ for not playing over the next 3 years, Minnesota are in trouble. They will need to do some cap gymnastics for the next few years.

That's why I started by trading Dmitri Kulikov. Yes, he was good for the Wild this year, but he's getting up there in age and it's 2 million $ that can be used somewhere else in the roster.

After that, I decided to trade Cam Talbot to the Leafs for Alex Kerfoot. I preder to have MAF over Talbot for Minnesota and by having the luxury of having Wallstedt on the roster, he can have a few good years to learn behind Fleury and be the #1 goalie for the Wild in the near future. Acquiring Kerfoot in the deal gives you depth in the centre position and give less pressure on kids like Rossi on the roster. He can also play on the 3rd line if Rossi ever gets better.

A deal that can be a head scratcher but I think it could help both teams. Having Greenway's contract in this lineup is kind of a problem. It's a big contract for the Wild short term. By trading him to Montreal, it gives a change of scenery for both players and a need for both teams. Greenway makes the Canadiens bigger. While for the Wild, Drouin brings them a scoring touch to add to Kaprizov, Boldy and Rossi. I think Drouin just needs to get out of the bright lights of Montreal to get him going again.

Trading Hartman was hard, but for the long term plan, his contract off the books will help the Wild. Trading him to the Eastern Conference for a draft pick helps them to get more draft capita.

What do you guys think?

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