Minnesota Wild General Discussion XIX

[57special]

Does anyone else get tired of hearing how much MN "activates" their Dmen?

 

[ShortPeter6]

I hope the wild make a splash at the TDL by selling the players they can get a haul for. We are not one or two rentals from a cup.

I would love if they did just that, to bad they won’t.

 

[BuiumSaveUs]

I’m just 53 games, Kaprizov is already up to 5th most points in a season by a Wild player. Say what you will about the team, I’m enjoying watching Kaprizov re-write the record book

 

[AKL]

I’m just 53 games, Kaprizov is already up to 5th most points in a season by a Wild player. Say what you will about the team, I’m enjoying watching Kaprizov re-write the record book

If I did the mental math correct, he should set the record at like 63 GP?

 

[BuiumSaveUs]

If I did the mental math correct, he should set the record at like 63 GP?

yeah something like that. what a gem. needs a centreman tho

 

[fredrikstad]

Of course it would make sense to keep Fiala in the long run. The issue is how much do he ask for.

 

[MK9]

I have zero expectations of Fiala being on this team after this season. I'm still convinced Fiala and his agent pissed Guerin off with each of the last 2 contract negotiations. They were contentious both times. I don't believe Guerin is interested in going down that road a 3rd time. With Fiala's game doing well, Guerin is likely just looking at it as more and more stacked chips that he can move for high picks or young high end prospects.

Honestly, with the next few years being tight, it wouldn't bother me that much if they moved both Fiala and Dumba as long as the returns are good. The team isn't likely to do jack for the next 3 years anyway. Best get some young talent coming in and prep for when they're out from under the Suter/Parise buyout cloud.

 

[Webster]

I have zero expectations of Fiala being on this team after this season. I'm still convinced Fiala and his agent pissed Guerin off with each of the last 2 contract negotiations. They were contentious both times. I don't believe Guerin is interested in going down that road a 3rd time. With Fiala's game doing well, Guerin is likely just looking at it as more and more stacked chips that he can move for high picks or young high end prospects.

Honestly, with the next few years being tight, it wouldn't bother me that much if they moved both Fiala and Dumba as long as the returns are good. The team isn't likely to do jack for the next 3 years anyway. Best get some young talent coming in and prep for when they're out from under the Suter/Parise buyout cloud.

You get it, Fiala's real problem here, that offseason ugly stuff that happened last year.

I doubt Guerin will trade Dumba though, who's one of those character guys he loves, and gave him the A.

 

[BuiumSaveUs]

Anyone want to explain to me how this would work because I’m not seeing how aquiring Weber would help us: per Russo

If the Wild acquired Weber, presuming his latest injury is actually career ending, the Wild would have to pay him only $6 million total the next four years plus the prorated remainder of this season. What they’d get in return for that is $7.587 million of annual cap hit that they could place on long-term injured reserve. It’s complicated and would take some annual maneuvering for Guerin and his team to make it work, but this would allow the Wild to spend significantly over their allotted cap ceiling and give them the room to do anything from re-signing Fiala to delving into free agency when they otherwise maybe wouldn’t be able to.

 

[Dr Jan Itor]

I have zero expectations of Fiala being on this team after this season. I'm still convinced Fiala and his agent pissed Guerin off with each of the last 2 contract negotiations. They were contentious both times. I don't believe Guerin is interested in going down that road a 3rd time. With Fiala's game doing well, Guerin is likely just looking at it as more and more stacked chips that he can move for high picks or young high end prospects.

Honestly, with the next few years being tight, it wouldn't bother me that much if they moved both Fiala and Dumba as long as the returns are good. The team isn't likely to do jack for the next 3 years anyway. Best get some young talent coming in and prep for when they're out from under the Suter/Parise buyout cloud.

I still don't understand this.

Anyone want to explain to me how this would work because I’m not seeing how aquiring Weber would help us: per Russo

Doesn't make sense to me.

 

[AKL]

Anyone want to explain to me how this would work because I’m not seeing how aquiring Weber would help us: per Russo

Russo is misunderstanding how LTIR works, acquiring Weber doesn't help us

 

[fredrikstad]

Russo is misunderstanding how LTIR works, acquiring Weber doesn't help us

I fully agreed with you on this one, the way I understand LTIR and the CBA. But a beat writer who doesn't know how this work??? Very odd.

By the way, could there be some Europeans or North American cheap options coming out of the KHL this days?

 

[thestonedkoala]

I fully agreed with you on this one, the way I understand LTIR and the CBA. But a beat writer who doesn't know how this work??? Very odd.

By the way, could there be some Europeans or North American cheap options coming out of the KHL this days?

Granlund's bro.

 

[Digitalbooya]

You get it, Fiala's real problem here, that offseason ugly stuff that happened last year.

I doubt Guerin will trade Dumba though, who's one of those character guys he loves, and gave him the A.

I’d say leadership has been a problem as well lately.

 

[GuerinUp]

Anyone want to explain to me how this would work because I’m not seeing how aquiring Weber would help us: per Russo

i dont see how using 7mil of our cap, then ltiring it, gets us any extra cap space when we have a 12 mil penalty.

 

[57special]

i dont see how using 7mil of our cap, then ltiring it, gets us any extra cap space when we have a 12 mil penalty.

Exactly. Either we, or Russo, completely misunderstand the situation.

The irony of getting Suter's old D partner, and carrying his cap hit on the books also, is near overwhelming.

 

[NHL1674]

 

[thestonedkoala]

Bring in Adam Oates!

 

[sdf]

Kaprizov style is anti-ovechkin/panarin

 

[GuerinUp]

its almost like this should be a normal thing to practice....

 

[BagHead]

Bring in Adam Oates!

Pretty disrespectful there, Parise. But... he was pretty good at them.

From the Baltimore Post in 2001:
Maybe he remembers the bad ones because there are so few of them. The NHL has kept official faceoff statistics for just three years. Over that time, Oates has taken 4,932 faceoffs - no one else is close to that number - and won 58.7 percent.
Last season alone, he took more draws (2,176) and won more (1,235) than anyone else. This season, the story is much the same. Heading into Saturday's game, Oates had already taken 1,426 faceoffs, tied for third in the league, and won 844 of them for a 59.2 percent average. The winning percentage was good enough to rank fourth in the NHL.

 

[Northerner]

A lot about the team seems off. If I had to point to one thing in particular, I'd say goaltending. We out shot Dallas and didn't get tossed around as bad as some of the other games, but Kaapo had to save a couple of those shots.

Be that as it may, the entire team just looks out of sorts. And Dumba coming back hasn't done much of anything, to all singing his praises.

 

[Wabit]

A lot about the team seems off. If I had to point to one thing in particular, I'd say goaltending. We out shot Dallas and didn't get tossed around as bad as some of the other games, but Kaapo had to save a couple of those shots.

Be that as it may, the entire team just looks out of sorts. And Dumba coming back hasn't done much of anything, to all singing his praises.

Yesterday was Dumba's first game in a few weeks. I'm giving him a game or two to shake off rust get back into the swing of things before making any judgements on him.

The team looks about the same as it did earlier in the season. Just early in the season they had everything go right in the last few minutes of games with the goalie pulled. Now the pendulum has swung back the other way everything is going wrong.

Kaprizov is the only thing keeping this team from being a bottom feeder. The goalies are average or worse, the d-corps isn't good, etc.

 

[Northerner]

Need the goalies to win a few games for them, and then they will get their mojo back.


Goalies are the one player on the ice that can singlehandedly win a game. And the morale of the team would go up.


Hearing Guerin might be in the market for a goalie before the deadline our goalies have been so bad, is there any truth to that?

 

[DeagleJenkins]

Anyone want to explain to me how this would work because I’m not seeing how aquiring Weber would help us: per Russo

i was very curious when i read this tid bit. how does putting weber on LTIR somehow take deadcap away from us?