Team: 2023-24 Minnesota Wild

Initial Creation Date: Nov. 15, 2022

Published: Nov. 15, 2022

Salary Cap Mode: Basic

If the season doesn't really go that well for Minnesota would they consider a 2-3 year retool/ rebuild until the Suter and Parise buyouts are done?
Right now they have over 14.7M in dead cap until 2025/2026 season. If they were to sell off some assets including Kaprizov they could potentially be back in a competitive spot come the 25/26 season. They would have to trade Kaprizov before the 24/25 season as that's when his NMC kicks in and the return could be significantly less. All pending UFAs over the next two years would have to be traded, ideally for decent prospects but worst case early picks. This is just to see what people think a Kaprizov trade could look like. I chose New Jersey as they have the cap space for his cap hit, have really good young prospects and a couple decent young roster players they could trade that wouldn't hurt them that badly. They also have a pretty deep team that doesn't need much to be true contenders and a player like Kaprizov could be the type of dynamic talent that could take them to the next level. The other mock trades aren't really specific but just showing which players could likely be easily moved for half decent returns. The teams, especially for the 23/24 trades are just random since its impossible to tell where those teams will be at next seasons deadline.
Could chase a couple free affects for short term deals as well or maybe one big fish in 24/25 offseason. Defence looks like it will be pretty solid and hopefully Wallstedt is ready for back up duties in 24/25 season.

Note the Toronto trade doesn't have to necessarily be Toronto, forgot to put that in the trade description. Any team at the deadline that is interested for a similar package.

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