Confirmed Trade: [MIN/CBJ] David Jiricek, 2025 5th round pick for Daemon Hunt, 2025 1st round pick, 2027 2nd round pick, 2026 3rd and 4th round picks
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Czechboy
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As it stands, Minnesota would be picking 21st in this year's draft. So bottom 1/3 of the draft. I expect them to be drafting around there.
Interesting enough right now: Tampa Bay, Edmonton, and Toronto in the next three positions have also traded their first. Colorado, Dallas, Vegas and Florida have also traded theirs. So 8/12 picks from 21-32 have been traded already. That's a lot.
Interesting enough right now: Tampa Bay, Edmonton, and Toronto in the next three positions have also traded their first. Colorado, Dallas, Vegas and Florida have also traded theirs. So 8/12 picks from 21-32 have been traded already. That's a lot.
cbjthrowaway
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he and his agent were super pushy when he was in columbus about how he should be playing in the NHL (and in the top four) pretty much since the start of the 23-24 season.
How Wild prospect David Jiricek is handling scratches — and development: ‘You have to have patience’
Jiricek isn't as ticked off as Wild fans but would obviously rather be in the lineup. "I'm not going to lie, I still want to play."www.nytimes.com
it's fair to wonder how much of this is a genuine attitude change versus the agent realizing the optics of doing that to yet another team that doesn't think he's ready.
614 CBJ
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Walsh is a cancer
His best move would be to change agents
His best move would be to change agents
They forced their hand and now they have no leverage... The only leverage he has left to use is his play, that's a lot of pressure on a young kid.
How is this a big oof for Minnesota?
I'm going to say this again and maybe the people in the back will finally hear it; Minnesota was not looking for a franchise defenseman. They were looking to round out their defensive unit and Jiricek fits that criteria to a T.
(1) There is a lot to be said about obtaining a solid middle 4 defenseman like Soucy or Seeler, coincidentally both former Minnesota defensemen.
(2) Minnesota needed another right-handed defenseman to slot behind Faber and round out their top 6 guys. Jiricek does just that and fits the timeline they are looking at. Spacek is solid, but there is some concern about Spacek being another smallish defenseman on a team of small defensemen.
His call up earlier this year showed that he has a place on the Wild and a good off-season should dispel any issues with him not being in the NHL and even if he starts in the AHL next year, he's going to be on the short list to be brought up.
Minnesota did not lose anything; Hunt is a good defenseman, but Minnesota has Buium and Middleton in front of him and a bunch of meh guys fighting for that last slot. They also had acquired a lot of draft picks before and after this year's draft. This year's draft depth was also said to be pretty mediocre at the very least. As mentioned above, the three other teams after Minnesota also traded their draft picks. 8 of the last 12 teams this year have moved their draft picks. Teams don't seem to like this draft.
As for why Jiricek was brought up and was not playing; the timeline for Brodin was in flux. Merrill was actually playing pretty good and Bogo was...well Bogo. They already burned 3 of their 4 call-ups and wanted Jiriciek to be with the team in case another injury happened. Even Bogo wasn't 100%, so they had to keep Jiricek here just in case Bogo went down. There is no conspiracy or playing issue with Jiricek. It was a logistic issues.
SteelCityCannon
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I hope so, him getting physically bullied and the fact he thinks he's NHL ready doesn't look like a good start but hopefully he can be a reg in the lineup next year.
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Dr Jan Itor
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He probably is. He looked like any other promising young player in his brief stint earlier.
First game back in Iowa and he gets a lacerated spleen. Out for the rest of the season.
Checked into the boards on his first game back in the AHL. Bad luck, really. Recovery time is 3-12 weeks, depending on the severity of the injury. This will be yet another obstacle to his development. Hopefully it's an injury of lesser severity, and he will be able to stay around MN for a good part of the summer and work on his game, both on and off the ice.
Yeah I was thinking couple months of recovery based on memory but wasn't 100% on that. Extra annoying injury because it's the type to stop you from doing anything too extreme.
Well, good time to work with video coaches and then maybe develop some sort of offseason plan he can work into as he heals
Czechboy
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What a gongshow of a season.lol.
If he was on the NHL this would have never happened.lol.
Jiricek are cursed.
BagHead
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I like that the translator within my Firefox broswer translated that last line in the Tweet to "This was a jerk season."
I don't know if that's a direct translation or a "close enough" translation, but I love that sentence.Anyway, this has been a crazy season for the Wild regarding injuries. I'm sorry to see Jiricek get wrapped up in that. Yurov got to be a part of it all the way over in Russia, too. Just nuts. I hope these guys all recover quickly and fully and have a great off-season because I'd love to see them be Wild regulars soon.
Czechboy
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Lol on the translation. Relatively accurate. If I were to north american it.. kind of like saying clown season. Or this season was like an idiot. Both aren't fully accurate either but in that ilk.lol.I like that the translator within my Firefox broswer translated that last line in the Tweet to "This was a jerk season."
Anyway, this has been a crazy season for the Wild regarding injuries. I'm sorry to see Jiricek get wrapped up in that. Yurov got to be a part of it all the way over in Russia, too. Just nuts. I hope these guys all recover quickly and fully and have a great off-season because I'd love to see them be Wild regulars soon.
And yes.. this is a massive gongshow. I'm not sure if he's an asshole, has been mistreated or is cursed. And some blame his agent but something is not going right at all.lol
Not all big players are physical - also he's only 21. Jesus give him a few years.
And HE IS NHL ready. There was an article posted about how the Wild are thinking of moving Spurgeon because they want Jiricek in the lineup.
Xoggz22
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You're foolish if you think he's NHL ready. Or do you mean NHL ready as a 7th defenseman to learn at the NHL level? We'll see what the off season brings, but he has work to do for sure. Staying in the NHL and not playing has been a curse for him the last 2 years. He wasn't ready in Columbus and not playing in MN should tell you he isn't ready there either. Fans think he's ready but management clearly does (did) not.
Dr Jan Itor
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The guy looked like he belonged when he played for Minnesota. We just ran into all of Faber-Spurgeon-Bogosian actually being healthy. If memory serves, Jiricek played his 6 games when Spurgeon was out injured after a slewfoot from L'Heureux.
