Article: What Could David Jiricek Bring To Minnesota?

[Tony Abbott]

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[Pewterschmidt]

If we send one of our few fwd prospects with nhl size for this d prospect, that tells me Guerin has soured on ogz.  We’ll see. Love the early season speculation!

[Pewterschmidt]

If we land jirzy I’ll guess it’s for future picks as we’ll need the cap space to buy nhl ready free agents over next 2-3 years 

[Tony Abbott]

16 minutes ago, Pewterschmidt said:

If we send one of our few fwd prospects with nhl size for this d prospect, that tells me Guerin has soured on ogz.  We’ll see. Love the early season speculation!

Pronman's U23 rankings had Jiricek 47th and Ohgren 116th at the beginning of the season. I think it'd be less about souring on the player and more having to spend to get a prospect they wouldn't be able to touch in a normal circumstance.

[Tony Abbott]

Still: Good point, it's not like Minnesota has a lot of Ohgrens at the ready, either.

[Imyourhuckleberry]

Would they need to trade more than Chisholm, Hunt, and Bankier?

[MNCountryLife]

If BG isn't happy with the D-core:

Spurge, Mid, Brodin, Faber, Zeev and Jiricek   

or Jiricek, Mid, Brodin, Faber, Zeev and Chisholm

I am not a fan of losing Spurge but we would be selling high on him. Columbus would consider a 1 to 1 here a big win.  So much so that the Wild may be able to ask for more.

[OldDutchChip]

I am hoping Bill doesn't get pulled into a bidding war (likely against himself) and gives away one or more of our top assets. He should not include Rossi, Yurov, Zeev and Wally. Not for this kind of a return (these four should be reserved IF we get a proven return on the offensive side). 

And I am not really sure where this guy fits? We have Brodin and Faber, Chissy is just getting started and is cheap, Midds is playing awesome, and i am not complaining about 3rd pair Bogo and no one is trading Spurge. then we have Zeev coming and at least one of our D prospects has to turn into something right? but even if they all are worthless, there is just no room. Brodin/Faber, Zeev/Midds, Chissy(Bogo)/Spurge as early as next year or maybe once Zeev graduates?

This is going to be an interesting game vs sabres. In ideal world - we whoop Sabres and start a long loosing streak for them, which culminates in them selling Tuch. We pick him up and staple him to maybe Bolds. We send Yurov for him (plus filler) we may be able to ice a decent enough lineup w Rossi on L2 (yeah yeah - i still want someone other than Ek to support Kap but.....) 

L1 EK KAP ZUCCY L2 BOLDY TUCH ROSSI

[Citizen Strife]

The Wild have been pretty lucky to not switch out NHL defenseman for what seems like forever.  Jiricek would be nice, but not in a bidding war scenario.  Wings are a future team weakness I would address first.  High end defensemen are a prize, but Jiricek is facing down a couple years behind Spurgeon at minimum.

[Lern2spell]

2 hours ago, MNCountryLife said:

I am not a fan of losing Spurge but we would be selling high on him. Columbus would consider a 1 to 1 here a big win.  So much so that the Wild may be able to ask for more.

...more, like Marchenko?

[mnhockeyfan03]

27 minutes ago, Lern2spell said:

...more, like Marchenko?

If they can find a way to get Marchenko and Jiricek and make it a blockbuster that would be awesome.  We need that RHD forward shot as well.  Rossi, spurgeon, Ohgren for Jiricek and Marchenko.  Then go get Brock Nelson