exactly why the wild need to make moves to get true centers. i put him there on purpose.

I thought if the Wild was a going to rebuilt and get some much needed cap space, they would not have resigned Kouvi. Sorry to disappoint, Ennis and Parise are untradable.

Any interest on frans Nielsen

no interest in taking in cap unless detroit really forks it up. also ya i am not happy with that extension. these moves are exactly why the wild won't win anything.

Trading a quality player from a position of little depth isn't how you retool. Staal is a top-6 center and the Wild only have 2 of them (Staal and Koivu). JEE and Kunin might turn into top-6 centers, but the also might not. Staal is also on a sweetheart deal, making cap space isn't done by trading away good contracts.

Trade a wing instead, they have a ton of them. The only problem is they fall into the good but not great category. Granlund, Zucker, Coyle, and Nino are all trade-able assets. Kunin, Greenway, Sokolov (I like him a lot), and Kaprizov (in 3 years) are all possible replacements in the pipeline.

It's hard to get a quality center, they just don't hit the market. A trade is possible, but even those are hard to do. 1C's don't become UFA signings until they are old. Other than tanking for a McDavid/Matthews and getting lucky in the draft lottery it's a crap shoot that even top-10 picks develop into the 1/2C they are projected to be.

Hanzal - 1nd round+ 2nd round
Staal - 2nd round + 4th round
In my opinion, someone is asking too cheap for Staal.