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wabit

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Forum: Armchair-GM2 hours ago
Thread: Thinking about centers
I don't think they made a splash for a center is because none would sign in MN.

The team doesn't look good right now, just in the last 12 months:
1. dumped Staal to get around his NTC.
2. Treated Parise badly and publicly.
3. Buyout Parise (understandable) and Suter (wtf). Really messing up the longterm cap.
4. No deals for Kaprizov or Fiala,
5. Bonino and Cole (GMBG wanted both of them back)both bolted for other teams for similar money.
6. Trade Menell because he made the GM mad.
7. The mess that the Cities are/have been.
8. Just the way the GM talks. Good teams talk about winning, Playoffs, going after a Cup; bad teams talk about building character. BG has said much more about building character a lot more than about building a winning team.

Players talk. Agents talk. I'm really curious to know what they are saying about the Wild organization this offseason.
Forum: Armchair-GM17 hours ago
Thread: What I would like to see
<div class="quote"><div class="quote_t">Quoting: <b>Wildwinswhen</b></div><div>wabit RazWild drmantalban

It's at the 57 minute (or so) of the Worst Seats in the House podcast on July 30th. It sounds like Russo is fed up. Russo suggested that GMBG offered 9M for 5 or 6 years and they said no... If so, that's a real problem. I can understand KK not doing the 8.5x8, but if he's not taking 9x5... We're in trouble here.</div></div>

9mx5 is right at or just below market value for Kaprizov, so a fair offer. It sounds like Kaprizov wants to be a UFA as soon as possible. It's not about the money, it's about controlling his own fate. As a UFA in 3 years he'd get that $9m and play where he wants and for a Cup contender. MN (in it's current state) is not a Cup contender with Kaprizov, it's not even a fringe Playoff team without him. He knows this, and from the looks of things, other players know it too. Old guys on their last legs and fringe NHLers are all MN got to sign as UFAs, and even that took overpays on their deals.

Russo might be fed up. He can't say anything negative about the team, and he's run out of positive things to say. Reporting on the Wild is his job, and there is nothing going on to write about. There is only so much fluff human interest stories about the players he can write about.

This offseason should have been a layup for the GM: re-sign 3 RFAs, re-sign Brodin, get a center, fill in a couple of depth FWDs spots, and a bottom pair LD.
Forum: Armchair-GMSat at 7:29 am
Thread: How good is this prospect pool
<div class="quote"><div class="quote_t">Quoting: <b>NYR1983</b></div><div>Well it depends how people classify prospects. For instance, Laf, Kakko, Kravs, Chytil, fox, Miller, Shesty, Lundkvist are all roster players now but I think most people still call them prospects. Meanwhile many teams haven’t brought their youth up so I’d say your “prospects” look solid but if Rossi and Boldy are playing well and stay in the NHL then they lose the “prospect” tag in my eyes. Of course everyone feels different and we all value our own “never going to make it” prospects more than others do.</div></div>

I basically go with the eligible for the Calder as a prospect. To me guys that have been playing more than a cup of coffee in the NHL have "graduated" out of prospect ranks.