What I expect

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Created by: zreich4

Team: 2020-21 Minnesota Wild

Initial Creation Date: Sep. 25, 2020

Published: Sep. 25, 2020

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NYI Trade
Why the Wild do it: GMBG makes this move to try to "change the culture" again. Just like the Staal trade, this is another underwhelming return but I could see something similar to this happening.
Why the Islanders do it: Basically upgrade Ladd to Parise at the cost of Bellows. With the retention they would have the same cap hit so they would unfortunately have to create cap space somewhere else.

NSH Trade
Donato cant find a spot in the lineup so GMBG moves him for a pick. Rumor is that Donato is headed to the Preds so I went with them as the team. As much as I want Donato to be a sweetener in a bigger trade I don't see it happening. I do think he could be at least a 20 goal scorer but doesn't look like he will get a shot here.

Future
According to what Guerin has said sounds like he wants to give Rask more opportunity and he is fine with keeping Dumba on the roster. I suspect these two will be given the opportunity to play this season here to try to improve their value and be shipped at the deadline.

9 OA: Lundell or Askarov (if Guerin doesn't believe in KK)

Next Offseason: If Guerin is unable to find that 1C in 2020 he could maybe try to find it in 2021. If RNH makes it FA he could be a target and assuming we have a high draft pick he could try his luck in the draft.

All speculation but I am expecting a long fix not a big blockbuster that fixes everything.

Free Agent Signings

RFA	YEARS	CAP HIT
Sturm, Nico	2	$900,000
Belpedio, Louis	2	$900,000
Greenway, Jordan	2	$1,750,000
Kähkönen, Kaapo	2	$950,000
Kunin, Luke	3	$2,250,000

UFA		YEARS	CAP HIT
Soucy, Carson		4	$2,750,000

Trades

MIN

2020 3rd round pick (NSH)

NSH

Donato, Ryan

MIN

NYI

Parise, Zach ($2,038,461 retained)

Retained Salary Transactions

Zach Parise: $2,038,461 (0%)

Draft	Round 1	Round 2	Round 3	Round 4	Round 5	Round 6	Round 7
2020
2021
2022

ROSTER

LONG-TERM OUTLOOK

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ROSTER SIZE	SALARY CAP	CAP HIT	OVERAGES	BONUSES	CAP SPACE
25	$81,500,000	$73,851,923	$0	$1,137,500	$7,648,077

Left Wing	Centre	Right Wing
Fiala, Kevin $3,000,000$3,000,000 RW, LW UFA - 1	Johansson, Marcus $4,500,000$4,500,000 LW, RW M-NTC UFA - 1	Kaprizov, Kirill $925,000$925,000 ($925,000$925K) LW UFA - 1
Greenway, Jordan $1,750,000$1,750,000 LW, RW UFA - 2	Eriksson Ek, Joel $1,487,500$1,487,500 C UFA - 1	Kunin, Luke $2,250,000$2,250,000 RW, C RFA - 2
Foligno, Marcus $2,875,000$2,875,000 RW, LW UFA - 1	Rask, Victor $2,000,000$2,000,000 C UFA - 2	Zuccarello, Mats $6,000,000$6,000,000 RW, LW NMC UFA - 4
Hartman, Ryan $1,900,000$1,900,000 C, RW UFA - 1	Sturm, Nico $900,000$900,000 C UFA - 2	Bjugstad, Nick $2,050,000$2,050,000 C, RW UFA - 1
Bellows, Kieffer $894,166$894,166 ($212,500$212K) LW, RW UFA - 1

Left Defense	Right Defense	Goaltender
Suter, Ryan $7,538,462$7,538,462 LD NMC UFA - 5	Spurgeon, Jared $7,575,000$7,575,000 RD NMC UFA - 7	Kähkönen, Kaapo $950,000$950,000 G UFA - 2
Brodin, Jonas $4,166,667$4,166,667 LD NMC UFA - 1	Dumba, Matt $6,000,000$6,000,000 RD UFA - 3	Stalock, Alex $785,000$785,000 G UFA - 2
Soucy, Carson $2,750,000$2,750,000 LD/RD UFA - 3	Pateryn, Greg $2,250,000$2,250,000 RD UFA - 1
Hunt, Brad $700,000$700,000 LD/RD UFA - 1	Belpedio, Louis $900,000$900,000 RD UFA - 1

Scratches	Injured Reserve (IR)	Long Term IR (LTIR)
Dubnyk, Devan $2,166,667$2,166,667 G M-NTC UFA - 1
Ladd, Andrew $5,500,000$5,500,000 LW M-NTC UFA - 3

Sep. 25, 2020 at 2:35 p.m.

gortonsfishsticks27

NYI

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It's tough... part of me says let's just give up on bellows to get a player that can help now, but another part of me says the Parise contract is so long that maybe it's worth taking a chance on Bellows. Really don't know. That's why I'm not paid the big bucks to make that choice.

Regardless, I think it's fair. I believe this is the trade that almost happened at the deadline, down to the exact dollar retention.

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Sep. 25, 2020 at 2:41 p.m.

villenash

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where is the rumor that Donato is going to the Preds?

Sep. 25, 2020 at 2:43 p.m.

slapshot723

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I mean I would do that as NYI. Other deals would need to be made, but I would do that.

Sep. 25, 2020 at 2:44 p.m.

zreich4

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Quoting: villenash

where is the rumor that Donato is going to the Preds?

Kinda was hard to find but supposedly on a podcast Donato himself said he was going to the Preds. Rumors are rumors though so believe it if you want.
https://www.reddit.com/r/wildhockey/comments/iywchm/donato_possibly_to_nashville/

Sep. 25, 2020 at 2:56 p.m.

wabit

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Donato to the Preds doesn't make much sense to me. He's a worse Fiala and we all know how well Fiala did in NSH.

Wild are paying almost $27m ($7.5m x 3 with Ladd, and $2m x 2 retained after that) in dead cap to with the NYI trade. Bellows isn't near enough for all that.

Just keep Parise for 3 more years and you're better off. The last 3 years of his deal he might get "back problems" when his take home pay is only $4m total and go LTIR.

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Sep. 25, 2020 at 3:07 p.m.

villenash

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Edited Sep. 25, 2020 at 3:13 p.m.

Quoting: zreich4

They also claimed Ghost and Voracek for Gaudreau and Tkachuk + 3OA for 1OA, so we'll see if any actually come true -- they sound a bit far-fetched. I don't particularly think NSH needs Donato, but we'll see.

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Sep. 25, 2020 at 3:09 p.m.

zreich4

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Quoting: wabit

Yeah like I stated the Parise trade is another "change of culture" trade so I doubt we get much from him. I really think Guerin is trying to clean house a bit and Parise is someone he wants to move. The wild arent necessarily in a cap situation right now so I dont think the Ladd contract really plays a factor. Its more the culture change he wants.

As for the Donato trade it was rumored so I added it. But I see him staying in his lineup limbo next year also so I could see them making a minor trade with him just to get something.

Sep. 25, 2020 at 3:10 p.m.

MNBassman

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By retaining on Parise in this scenario, the Wild are essentially getting a $7.5million AHL player, and another AHL player for an NHL player who, by the way, is still a good NHL player...
Am I missing something???

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Sep. 25, 2020 at 3:11 p.m.

zreich4

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Quoting: villenash

They also claimed Ghost and Voracek for Gaudreau and Tkachuk + 3OA for 1OA, so we'll see if any actually come true -- they sound a far-fetched I don't particularly think NSH needs Donato, but we'll see.

Oh wow. Yeah that trade is crazy. I could see Donato getting moved so I thought it might have some traction. But you're right who knows.

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Sep. 25, 2020 at 3:13 p.m.

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zreich4

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Quoting: MNBassman

No you're basically right. Like I said its more on breaking up the "country club" and you get out of the NMC and save 2 years of term.

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Sep. 25, 2020 at 3:16 p.m.

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Take any rumor off reddit with a grain of massive salt.

Unless it comes directly from either Russo, Friedman, Dreger, or LeBrun. I don't give it much stock. Looking around off the beaten path is fine, but until it gains some traction with one of those four it's all strictly BS.

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