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  • Wild Finalize Roster With Season Around The Corner

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    Thomas Williams

    By Thomas Williams -

    We are just days away from the Minnesota Wild opening their 2024-25 season on Thursday night hosting the Columbus Blue Jackets. And since we are just days away, the Wild finalized their opening roster over the weekend after making some tough decisions.

    Announced by the team, they sent defenseman Daemon Hunt down to AHL Iowa and placed forward Ben Jones on waivers to then, also, be assigned to Iowa. While that technically makes the Wild's training camp roster still at 27, four above the 23-player limit, there are exactly four injured players still on the roster on paper alone.

    Forwards Graeme Clarke, Luke Toporowski, and Mikey Milne, and goaltender Troy Grosenick are still listed on the Wild's training camp roster. All four players will not open the season in the NHL, and in Grosenick's case, he will remain on the Injured Reserve list for the entire 2024-25 season, as he had to have season-ending surgery.

    Now, to the fun part. The Wild's 23-man roster has been set and some exciting players are on it. Namely, forward Liam Ohgren and goaltender Jesper Wallstedt. Ohgren will provide some energy to the lineup in a very Minnesota way, and Wallstedt will be part of the triumvirate in the crease, along with Filip Gustavsson and Marc-Andre Fleury.

    It is going to be an interesting start for the Wild as they have loads of young talent, but also need opportunity for them to play while carrying some older veterans in the lineup, as well.

    That's Wild

    • Jakub Lauko has been a welcome addition to the Wild, on and off the ice. [Pioneer Press]
    • Takeaways from the Wild's preseason finale against the Chicago Blackhawks. [The Athletic]
    • Matt Boldy is uber talented, but, to take a term from baseball, can he be a 50/50 player? Fifty goals and fifty assists? [Hockey Wilderness]

    Off the trail...

    • This will surely not apply to those reading this website, but a lapsed hockey fan's guide to the 2024-25 NHL season. [ESPN]
    • A whole slew of talent was on the waiver wire yesterday and could be claimed by 1:00 p.m. Monday. Pierre Engvall is a solid two-way forward with a heavy contract, Erik Brannstrom is a mobile offensive defenseman, Jakob Pelletier is small but gifted, and loads others. [The Hockey News]
    • What the expectations are for each NHL team. [Sportsnet]
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    M_Nels
    41 minutes ago, Imyourhuckleberry said:

    Unless the Wild plan to play Wallstedt over Fleury early and often, I hope they send him to Iowa to play fairly frequently through the end of October.

    My prediction as far as this month is that he starts at STL and CBJ possibly at PHI depending on how the other 2 games go. Man looking at the schedule for the next 2 months is a little bit of a gauntlet. That stretch from 11/7-11/10 is brutal, not because of the opponents but travel wise. It's at SJS-ANA B2B and then at Chicago after only one 1 day off.

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    mnfaninnc

    I think they'll want him specifically for the 7 game road trip where I believe The Wall will be used. I think it is Fleury who won't be used much, and may just have the backup seat named after him for the year. 

    I still have a hard time believing that Johansson and Gaudreau made the team. But here's the thing, someone had to, without any doubts, take their spot from them. I thought Jones looked good in the lone game I watched, but in practices and games did he stand out enough to climb the ladder? 

    I really do get Merrill as #7. He's really #9, but he looks much better eating nachos in the Prossbox. They want Hunt and Lambos playing. Merrill's a decent emergency player for very short term. Hunt is a better option for an IR replacement. And, they can always send down The Wall if that happens. 

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    Pablo

    Looks like Gus is going to stick around to be the 40% next year with Wally in net most of the time. This year going to be alot of growth for the whole team. 

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