Article: Marco Rossi's Contract Won't Silence the Trade Whispers

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1 hour ago, raithis said:

Don't have time to reply to all of this so I will just focus on one part.

It does not leave $9M.  If those players need to be re-signed, then the money they are making now will also be freed up, increasing that number to something more along the lines of $24-25M.  That, and Spurgeon, if re-signed, would likely sign for less than he's getting now.  He wouldn't be making what he is now.

$15M for Kaprizov isn't going to hurt the team much more than $13M will.  All the ELCs will carry the Wild through the tightest part of that, and as the cap increases, there will be room to re-sign the younger players who are going to cost more to keep.

Despite saying that you recognize that the cap is going up, you still apply reasoning relative to the cap being stagnant.

Yes, you're correct, I meant in new cap space.

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2 hours ago, mnhockeyfan03 said:

Once again why does everyone want to keep running the same guys back.  We need more top 6 forwards.  If cap signs for less that allows us to get another top 6 forward or 2.  Sorry but Zuc, Rossi and Terasenko are not top 6 guys on a contending team.  Is this fan base just happy to be decent or want a really chance of getting a cup.  If it’s a cup then we need more money for top 6 guys and guys like Spurg and Brodin will be gone along with Rossi, Zuc and Terasenko 

They aren't running the same guys back though.

Buium, Jiricek, Ohgren, Wallstedt, Yurov, Tarasenko, and Sturm are currently all expected to make the opening roster.

Gaudreau, Merrill, Chisholm, Fleury, etc are all gone.

Around 25% of the team is different this year from last year.

I agree that we need more legitimate and productive top-6 players, but on contending teams that comes from prospects who become pillars for success on the team.  It especially has to be that way for the Wild given that the better free agents don't tend to flock to Minnesota.  There could be a trade deadline shift but the Wild needs to see what they have in the prospects they have first.