Last Year of Buyout Hell

Team: 2024-25 Minnesota Wild

Initial Creation Date: Apr. 17, 2024

Published: Apr. 17, 2024

Salary Cap Mode: Basic

The Wild have one more year with $15 mil in dead money which limits there ability to make a splash in free agency so any big roster improvement will have to come through trades.

First move - The resigning of Fluery makes Gus an asset that can be moved. Hyne's thinks this team needs to get stronger and faster that is where targeting Knies comes in. Toronto needs to improve in net and even with Gus having a down year he would be an improvement. Knies will be expensive but between his talent and cost the is worth a high price tag. What would Toronto's number be for this?

Second move - is improving the depth at defense. Ian Cole is a good fit here a strong physical defenseman if the Wild stay healthy Bogosian and Cole are 6/7 but both can handle more minutes. Then Merrill can watch the season from the press box if we can't trade him for a bag of pucks.

Third move - bring back Lucchini or similar to add depth to the 4th line.

GMBG has shown he doesn't want to rush young guys into the league so coming into the season I think Johansson starts on the third line and Gaudreau on the fourth and Ohgren and Khusnutdinov start in Iowa but I could see them getting called up if these guys struggle as bad as they did this year.