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    Thomas Williams

    By Thomas Williams -

    That's Wild

    • The AHL Wild are already adding some talent for next season. On Monday, they announced that they have signed forward Matthew Sop to a one-year, one-way AHL contract and will be joining the team for the 2024-25 season. Sop is an undrafted left-winger who attended Toronto Maple Leafs development camp once as his sole NHL experience. For the last few years, he has been on the OHL's Kitchener Rangers and is coming off a 90-point campaign where he scored 43 goals as an overager. [iowawild.com]
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    • The Columbus Blue Jackets are trying to not be a rebuilding team anymore. They changed their general manager and now, they're going to change their head coach after firing Pascal Vincent on Monday. [NHL.com]
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    mnfaninnc

    CBJ firing their coach was completely predictable. He was a last minute replacement where nobody was available. I'm quite surprised they waited this long to do it. 

    Chalk me up as being in on Laine. I do think we can fix him.

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    Up North Guy
    18 hours ago, mnfaninnc said:

    CBJ firing their coach was completely predictable. He was a last minute replacement where nobody was available. I'm quite surprised they waited this long to do it. 

    Chalk me up as being in on Laine. I do think we can fix him.

    It would be great if the Wild could acquire and fix Laine but is the cost justified in taking the risk? Hard question to answer but luckily i don't have to make it.

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    9 minutes ago, Up North Guy said:

    It would be great if the Wild could acquire and fix Laine but is the cost justified in taking the risk?

    I'd be surprised that this is a project Guerin & Co want to take on given their to-date efforts to fix the culture of this group (parise/suter, appointing spurge as captain, spurning t-bot, etc.).  If Guerin proves me wrong I'll officially throw up my hands and accept that I cannot see a method to his madness (ie trading Rossi).

    Maybe he's playing chess and I want to watch checkers, but Guerin's track record (Fiala PR blunders, front office HR drama, t-bot, apathetic core extensions w/NMC's) I think he's playing solitaire against himself.  Heyo!!

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    mnfaninnc
    22 hours ago, Up North Guy said:

    It would be great if the Wild could acquire and fix Laine but is the cost justified in taking the risk? Hard question to answer but luckily i don't have to make it.

    If salary were retained, I think we'd be getting a deal.

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    Up North Guy
    1 hour ago, mnfaninnc said:

    If salary were retained, I think we'd be getting a deal.

    I guess it just depends on which Laine the team gets. Would it be the Laine from the last 2-3 years or the one from his first years? 

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    mnfaninnc
    5 hours ago, Up North Guy said:

    I guess it just depends on which Laine the team gets. Would it be the Laine from the last 2-3 years or the one from his first years? 

    Laine was a good scorer in Winnipeg who was also in a playoff race. Laine is not the kind of player you want to insert into a rebuilding team (maybe one that's rebuilding on the fly 😉). I see us being ahead of CBJ on as far as playoffs go, and perhaps I put to much faith in it, but I really think Mikko Koivu is respected by him and can help him get out of the funk he's in. 

    We'll have to make him leave all his turtle necks in Ohio so Protec won't get on him so hard!

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