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Forum: Armchair-GMMay 18, 2022 at 11:15 p.m.
Thread: Cap hell year one Fiala out but minimal off-season otherwise
<div class="quote"><div class="quote_t">Quoting: <b>Easportzz</b></div><div>Agree with most if not all of that. My homerized opinion Is that they can probably resign Middleton for less than his value (whatever that may be) because he is just giddy anytime he’s with the media on how much fun he had getting traded here and how he lived playing with the team.
On the Fiala trade, other iterations I’ve done I’ve proposed the 2nd OA pick but NJ fans want to put you in the trunk for such an offense. I don’t know propspecta as well as a lot of folks on here (especially those who are not with Wild), but thinking BG would have some fun picking through and finding “his guys” and these two dudes seem to play heavy.</div></div>

This is why players have agents. His next contract might be his only chance to get a decent payday as an NHL player. $2m-ish for a 1-2 years is a fair deal, but adding that 3rd year I think bumps it up to closer to $3m/yr. He's better than Goli and Kulikov ($2m/yr deals), and is playing in a 2nd pair role with Spurgeon.

The only thing keeping him from the $4m range is the fact he doesn't have much of a track record. I'm looking at the deal $2.75m x 3 deal Soucy signed with MN as a baseline.