Article: We Are In the Minnesota Wild's Metapod Era

[Dango]

 

 

[mnfaninnc]

Tony, this was one fine article. Like McGyver, I'm also old and no little to nothing about Pokemon. But, the caterpillar to the butterfly is pretty much a perfect analogy. This was going to have to come sometime and was always going to be part of the process.

Billy is looking for top 6 help. I find this to be very interesting, considering, they have not tried Yurov or Ohgren in the top 6. No, they bury the kids to the bottom 6. If you're going to get out of the pod, you've got to give the kids opportunity. To me, Yurov seems like the best option to kick up, since he has looked NHL competent. See what he can do!

Now, might it be important to wait on a trade to see if we're out of it yet? Probably, and we can then add youth for vets. Guerin isn't the only GM who values vets. And, we've got some vets who would be good additions to any lineup. Just don't be like the Twins and gut a whole area of the team and then wonder why nobody can work the 7th, 8th and 9th innings consistently.

It's hard to switch gears back to future when we really were wanting to switch gears to present, but we may need more future ahead of switching to present. I know that sentence will need to be read more than once.

Note to Guerin-You've been disciplined to this point not to trade the kids. Now's the time to give them chances, and to build players for now and year's to come. 35 year old Kadris do not do this!

Lastly, that picture of Faber up top perfectly sums up the metapod!

Edited 16 hours ago by mnfaninnc

[PNW Wild]

22 hours ago, Pewterschmidt said:

Just read the article.  Thanks for the heads up.  Some names mentioned are: Zacha, Middlestedt and Kadri with Rossi+ going the other way.  

The article lists Guerin's dangling of Rossi in the past tense and even says, "With Rossi staying put in Minnesota and performing well, there isn’t a specific need to add a center, a team source told me."

There is no indication that BG is still trying to trade Rossi. Or that he is trying to trade Rossi+ for Kadri, or anyone else. In fact if you read the article, the author states that they have no knowledge of the Wild talking to the Flames about Kadri, but simply that other teams have and it would make sense for the Wild. 

Please be more careful when quoting those who are in the business and have knowledge. 

[Pewterschmidt]

1 hour ago, mnfaninnc said:

The one I read does not include Rossi in the return. It didn't have return price at all, but mentioned Rossi being a pleasant surprise and not necessarily needing to find a center.

Rossi speculation was 100% my speculation

[Pewterschmidt]

26 minutes ago, PNW Wild said:

The article lists Guerin's dangling of Rossi in the past tense and even says, "With Rossi staying put in Minnesota and performing well, there isn’t a specific need to add a center, a team source told me."

There is no indication that BG is still trying to trade Rossi. Or that he is trying to trade Rossi+ for Kadri, or anyone else. In fact if you read the article, the author states that they have no knowledge of the Wild talking to the Flames about Kadri, but simply that other teams have and it would make sense for the Wild. 

Please be more careful when quoting those who are in the business and have knowledge. 

[Pewterschmidt]

6 minutes ago, Pewterschmidt said:

Rossi speculation was 100% my speculation

Rossi is maybe the only player with market value and no trade protection

 No that package of trenin +pitlick +ogzy ain’t gonna return much.  All the other stiffs have protection 

[WIWild]

"Good things generally don't happen to coaches of underperforming teams, and that incentivizes them to squeeze every last point out of their veterans at the expense of development" << this. Unless BG has told JH he's safe, BG's in charge of whether our prospects are getting ice time. BG is sending the message that short term success is more important than long term development.

[MacGyver]

I just watched the Sharks punk the Av's in OT. The Sharks with their young squad are flying on the ice. These kids can skate, shoot and score. They are going to be a force in a few short years. They are ahead of the Wild right now because of the lack of the Wild's inability in developing these young kids.  The Wild are not willing to suffer the pain for the gain. They always think the old mules are going to get them to the promised land. They continue year after year to convince themselves they are too good to sacrifice games to let the kids learn. They are just short one aging vet to get them over the hump. 

Right now they are playing even up with a rather poor Vancouver team at home.