1. Seattle probably doesn't touch Parise's contract without another 1st or salary retention.

2. Its not a horrible deal for Couturier but I doubt Philly trades him, he seems like the successor of the "C" for the Flyers. He's honestly to me been their mvp for a while now.

3. With Kaprizov, Boldy, Greenway, Beckman (in a year or 2), Fiala, Foligno, Hartman & Sturm the Wild have a lot of players who play LW or can play the left side, and every forward is a lefty which is weird. I feel like if anything the Wild should get a veteran top 6 scorer say like Phil Kessel who would be inexpensive (especially if the Yotes retain some salary) & is on a 1 year deal. Landeskog is an excess good he helps for a season or 2 but then potential cap crunch comes. I don't see them signing anyone to a big contract unless a big money 1st line centre is available.

Landeskog would be an interesting signing for Minnesota. Actually wouldn't mind seeing that happen.

1. Parise's total buyout salary is 6M and Seattle will have the cap space to manage the buyout cap hit. So it's basically, do they want to spend 6M to get a 1st and a 3rd. It might take more than that from the Wild, to be fair, but it's a thought.

2. I wanted to make it hard to say no. But yeah, you're probably right there.

3. Minnesota has had problems finding right hand forwards and with RNH signing a new contract, I don't know where they'll be coming from. I mainly just wanted to get Fiala some help with the biggest splash I could.

Kessel won't be coming here. He had a chance last year and he blocked the trade. So I think that ship has sailed unfortunately.