Getting more Center Prospects

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Created by: BenghisKHan

Team: 2023-24 Minnesota Wild

Initial Creation Date: Jun. 5, 2023

Published: Jun. 5, 2023

Salary Cap Mode: Basic

Description

The Wild have a fairly deep prospect pool especially on the blue line. Leverage our 1st and 2nd round picks to get the best center we can. Vancouver is the obvious target with their current prospect pool quantity has more valuable than a single 1st rounder. I think Addison has higher potential than this return but based on comments from Guerin and Evason its clear he is in their doghouse so instead of let him sit in the press box move him.

Free Agent Signings

RFA	YEARS	CAP HIT
Duhaime, Brandon	3	$1,200,000
Gustavsson, Filip	3	$3,500,000
Shaw, Mason	3	$800,000

UFA		YEARS	CAP HIT
Mermis, Dakota		2	$800,000

Trades

MIN

2023 1st round pick (VAN)

Additional Details:

This would be a Draft day deal; Vancouver has a prospect depth problem having three picks in the first two rounds of this draft will be as or more valuable than one 1st round

VAN

Steel, Sam [RFA Rights]
2023 1st round pick (MIN)
2023 2nd round pick (MIN)
2023 2nd round pick (VGK)

Additional Details:

This would be a Draft day deal;
The Wild have a fairly deep prospect pool so trading quantity for quality makes sense; the target would be Dvorsky or Moore to add quality center depth

MIN

2023 2nd round pick (DET)
2023 6th round pick (DET)

Additional Details:

Draft day:
Addison is a young D man with huge offensive upside that clearly doesn't get along w/ the Wild coaching staff; he is NHL ready w/ controllable contract

DET

Addison, Calen [RFA Rights]
2023 5th round pick (MIN)

Additional Details:

Draft day:
If the Wild aren't going to play Addison move him for picks in this draft again looking at centers in this range Stramel and Molgaard are viable options

Buyouts

Zach Parise: $7,371,794
Ryan Suter: $7,371,794

Draft	Round 1	Round 2	Round 3	Round 4	Round 5	Round 6	Round 7
2023
2024
2025

ROSTER

LONG-TERM OUTLOOK

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ROSTER SIZE	SALARY CAP	CAP HIT	OVERAGES	BONUSES	CAP SPACE
22	$83,500,000	$83,324,421	$0	$907,500	$175,579

Left Wing	Centre	Right Wing
Kaprizov, Kirill $9,000,000$9,000,000 LW UFA - 3	Rossi, Marco $863,333$863,333 ($850,000$850K) C RFA - 2	Zuccarello, Mats $6,000,000$6,000,000 RW, LW M-NTC, NMC UFA - 1
Johansson, Marcus $2,000,000$2,000,000 LW, RW NTC UFA - 2	Eriksson Ek, Joel $5,250,000$5,250,000 C UFA - 6	Boldy, Matthew $7,000,000$7,000,000 RW, LW UFA - 7
Walker, Samuel $855,000$855,000 ($57,500$58K) RW, LW RFA - 1	Hartman, Ryan $1,700,000$1,700,000 C, RW NMC UFA - 1	Foligno, Marcus $3,100,000$3,100,000 RW, LW NMC UFA - 1
Dewar, Connor $800,000$800,000 LW, C RFA - 1	Gaudreau, Frédérick $2,100,000$2,100,000 C, LW M-NTC UFA - 5	Duhaime, Brandon $1,200,000$1,200,000 RW, LW UFA - 1

Left Defense	Right Defense	Goaltender
Middleton, Jake $2,450,000$2,450,000 LD UFA - 2	Spurgeon, Jared $7,575,000$7,575,000 RD NMC UFA - 4	Gustavsson, Filip $3,500,000$3,500,000 G UFA - 3
Brodin, Jonas $6,000,000$6,000,000 LD NMC UFA - 5	Faber, Brock $925,000$925,000 RD RFA - 2	Fleury, Marc-André $3,500,000$3,500,000 G NMC UFA - 1
Merrill, Jon $1,200,000$1,200,000 LD UFA - 2	Goligoski, Alex $2,000,000$2,000,000 LD/RD NMC UFA - 1

Scratches	Injured Reserve (IR)	Long Term IR (LTIR)
Mermis, Dakota $800,000$800,000 LD/RD UFA - 1		Shaw, Mason $800,000$800,000 LW, C RFA - 1
Fogarty, Steven $762,500$762,500 C, RW UFA - 1

Jun. 5, 2023 at 12:55 p.m.

PuzzledActuary

Joined: Nov. 2022

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Sold for DET

Jun. 5, 2023 at 1:17 p.m.

JhonnyCanuck5

Joined: Feb. 2022

Posts: 1,318

Likes: 426

Wings accept

Jun. 5, 2023 at 1:45 p.m.

TanSor

Joined: Jun. 2017

Posts: 8,697

Likes: 7,071

I'd be a little surprised if we couldn't get at least a late 1st for Addison. He's a good player despite being in Dean's dog house.

I don't love owning only two picks in the first five rounds either.

Jun. 5, 2023 at 7:06 p.m.

Jeffrey4649

Wild2025

Joined: Mar. 2023

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Not really a year when there is enough spread between picks 11 and 21 to trade 4 assets to move up 10 spots. You could get 3 really good prospects with those 3 picks. I'm not saying they'll all be NHL players but you want as many darts to throw at the board that is the draft as possible.

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