Article: Why Did the Wild Commit To Brock Faber But Not Marco Rossi?

[Tom Schreier]

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[FredJohnson]

Now, they have a roster that looks a lot like their dead-cap teams.

Thank you!!

[MrCheatachu]

I'm a bit confused at the thesis of the article.  I'm not sure I understand what the conclusion/argument is?

If you look at the rates/game it sure looks like Faber's offensively performing on par with prior seasons.

Season	Team	GP	G	G/GP	A	A/GP	PTS	PTS/G	PIM	PIM/GP	SOG	SOG/GP	PPP	PPP/GP	HITS	HITS/GP	BKS	BKS/GP	FOW	FOW/GP
2025-2026	MIN	17	3	0.18	6	0.35	9	0.53	0	0.00	38	2.24	4	0.24	6	0.35	34	2.00	0	0.00
2024-2025	MIN	78	10	0.13	19	0.24	29	0.37	23	0.29	124	1.59	10	0.13	34	0.44	115	1.47	0	0.00
2023-2024	MIN	82	8	0.10	39	0.48	47	0.57	26	0.32	136	1.66	16	0.20	65	0.79	151	1.84	0	0.00

And our entire defensive core has looked pretty damn weak this season.  Brodin, Spurgeon, Middleton and Faber all look 'off.'

Brockli is still eating up major minutes while drawing hard opponents on a team that's currently struggling to generate offense:

But none of that currently answers why Fabes got paid, and Rossi got a bridge deal AND no other teams apparently expressing interests in his services.  The Flyers publicly stated that SillyG was asking for Foerster OR a late 1st round pick, which the Flyers said was too much... 

So what are we all missing?  In a league starved for centers, nobody is willing to open their wallets for the guy?

 

[Citizen Strife]

Uh...he did?

Guerin didn't just ship out Rossi at first trade offer.  Vancouver didn't offer anything valuable and Philly and Buffalo both said no.

Rossi signed his deal, and unless Guerin trades him, who cares?  They signed him and he's rewarded them by being their top offensive center so far.

Rossi isn't untradable, but he hasn't been left out to dry.  I swear sometimes we just want to fear monger for the sake of it.

 

[Dean]

Good article but I don’t see the Rossi rising star thing. . Faber I think most in nhl agree is a quality top 4 d man.  Rossi I don’t think the nhl agrees or do I that he’s a #1 center . Yes he’s a good player but imo not #1 on a contender. I have yet to see him being dominant against good teams. I haven’t seen the wild play good against good teams .  So they won a couple games against bad teams.  Rossi , kk and zuc weren’t doing anything special against a really bad team in Calgary . They were getting pinned in there own end because they are all to small to stop a cycle by rubbing a guy out on boards . I’ll take McKinnon, mcdavid   Eichel , bedard , Cooley , celebrini, Carlson , schieflie , byfield , Crosby malkin , mattews   Hughes , barkov , point , Thompson, etc. over Rossi all day long. Until he can matchup and produce in big games against these centers he’s just a good player on a mediocre team looking for a #1 center. Maybe he would be a #1 if he had a tkachuk on his wing  but I doubt it . Rossi is a good player but where he fits idk. . Not centering a top line for a small team trying to win a cup. So I’m fine with his contract . It makes him more valuable to trade for a # 1center hopefully. 

[Pewterschmidt]

2 minutes ago, Dean said:

Good article but I don’t see the Rossi rising star thing. . Faber I think most in nhl agree is a quality top 4 d man.  Rossi I don’t think the nhl agrees or do I that he’s a #1 center . Yes he’s a good player but imo not #1 on a contender. I have yet to see him being dominant against good teams. I haven’t seen the wild play good against good teams .  So they won a couple games against bad teams.  Rossi , kk and zuc weren’t doing anything special against a really bad team in Calgary . They were getting pinned in there own end because they are all to small to stop a cycle by rubbing a guy out on boards . I’ll take McKinnon, mcdavid   Eichel , bedard , Cooley , celebrini, Carlson , schieflie , byfield , Crosby malkin , mattews   Hughes , barkov , point , Thompson, etc. over Rossi all day long. Until he can matchup and produce in big games against these centers he’s just a good player on a mediocre team looking for a #1 center. Maybe he would be a #1 if he had a tkachuk on his wing  but I doubt it . Rossi is a good player but where he fits idk. . Not centering a top line for a small team trying to win a cup. So I’m fine with his contract . It makes him more valuable to trade for a # 1center hopefully. 

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