Speculation: Russo: Minnesota's Offseason Plan to Add Scoring

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Not an issue with Rossi. Rossi appears to be exceptionally healthy, and his heart didn't receive long term damage. Usually Myocarditis victims have their condition aggravated by other factors that are absent in his case.
I hope you're right for Rossi's sake. A lot of people ended up with myocarditis last pandemic and it scares the hell out of me, my prayers go out to those affected. I'm sure the NHL wouldn't let him play if it was life-threatening, I guess. That stat is so scary though, and comes from a .gov medical journal. I really hope there are other factors in Rossi's case that aren't going to impede his health or career. Still scares the heck out of me
 
If the Sharks were interested in Rossi, what would the Wild's asking price be if they even have interest in anything?

I'm not seeing anything that both parties would be interested in. You should just stick with Celebrini and Smith and be happy about that.
 
Wonder if Minny and the Pens could make a deal around Rakell and Rossi. Pens have a gluttony of draft picks which Minny could use to get additional players. Rakell in the meantime adds a ton up front for them.
 
Essentially that he's 5'9" and might want too big of a contract (speculation). He's done literally everything else we could've wanted, on and off the ice, including perfectly acceptable production in Kaprizov-less games this season.
Size is always an issue for kids at the draft. I'm always of the opinion, that it doesn't matter per individual player, but from a team POV, they do limit themselves to the number of sub 5'10 guys on the roster to like 3 or something. So, you really don't want to draft someone on the smaller side unless you truly believe in the kid to be a top 6 F or a very good PMD/PP guy. Cause, if they don't hit, unlikely to keep the player very long in a lessor role if you have another smaller guy or two on the roster.

They took him in the top 10 in 2020.
 
I'm not seeing anything that both parties would be interested in. You should just stick with Celebrini and Smith and be happy about that.
Always should be looking out for opportunities but if the Wild aren't interested in anything, so be it. The Sharks were always going to stick with Celebrini and Smith. Doesn't mean you can't add someone like Rossi if something makes sense.
 
but from a team POV, they do limit themselves to the number of sub 5'10 guys on the roster to like 3 or something. So, you really don't want to draft someone on the smaller side unless you truly believe in the kid to be a top 6 F or a very good PMD/PP guy. Cause, if they don't hit, unlikely to keep the player very long in a lessor role if you have another smaller guy or two on the roster.

Okay but if you look at the number of 5'11 or smaller guys on the Wild this season, it's 37 year old Zuccarello, 35 year old Spurgeon, (almost) 31 year old Vinnie Hinostroza, and 35 year old Gustav Nyquist. There shouldn't be any issue with keeping 23 year old Rossi as the lone "small guy" long term.

Even looking at the prospects likely being infused into the system in the next several years:

Jiricek 6'3
Buium 6'0
Ritchie 6'1
Stramel 6'3
Heidt 5'11
Ohgren 6'0
Yurov 6'1

There should be no rush to move Rossi whatsoever.
 
the stat is age adjusted but not gonna argue about this in a hockey forum, hope you have a great day!
You mentioned it in a hockey forum though. The age adjusted mortality for a 20 year-old is nowhere near 25%.

 
If you can call it that
Has bogosian regressed any worse than anyone else in the roster???? I mean he was more than serviceable before and now he looks terrible. You could say the same exact thing for every single player we have rostered this year aside from Kap
 
First off, I doubt Vancouver trades their best center for a winger, especially after trading miller away. secondly, EP doesn’t have much trade value with a 11.6 mil caphit. I think minny should trade Rossi for a young unestablished player with upside with an add for cap savings from a Rossi contract and spend the cap savings via free agency
?? Rossi is, and always has been a Center.
 

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