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    That's Wild

    • All the obligations the Minnesota Wild had this summer are now complete. Everyone is able to play professional hockey under contract next season, as the Wild signed their final restricted free agent, Graeme Clarke.
      The winger was acquired in a swap with the New Jersey Devils for Adam Beckman and is now on a one-year, two-way deal that will earn him $800,000 in the NHL and $105,000 in the AHL. Clarke is waiver eligible, so if he does not make the Wild out of training camp, the team could lose him for nothing if another team really sees potential. [NHL.com]
    • Former Wild head coach Dean Evason was hired by the Columbus Blue Jackets to run their bench. So, do the Wild have an opportunity to get rid of an unfavorable contract and trade one of Evason's favorites to the rebuilding Blue Jackets? [Hockey Wilderness]

    Off the trail...

    • The NHL teams that changed the most this offseason -- in good and bad ways. [ESPN]
    • After allegedly quasi covering up the 2010 Chicago Blackhawks sexual assault of player Kyle Beach and letting it fester for over a decade, general manager Stan Bowman was no longer welcome in the NHL for a period time. Earlier, the league reinstated him (along with coach John Quenneville) and the Edmonton Oilers are quickly taking that opportunity to get an extremely mediocre executive that has bad press all around him. According to Elliotte Friedman, the Oilers are planning on hiring Bowman to be their GM.

     

    • Brandon Montour, of Mohawk descent, is heading home to Six Nations in Southern Ontario for a special Stanley Cup parade. [CBC]
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    mnfaninnc

    For Clarke, it's not as ominous as it seems. Yes, he'll have to pass through waivers, but that means someone will have to keep him for awhile on their N roster. They can't just pick him off and send him to their A affiliate....unless he looks horrible in camp for us, but then if that happens, who would claim him?

    Both players, he and Beckman, got their change of scenery and now can reset for a huge training camp. It's on both of them to do what it will take to impress their GMs. Is Clarke as good as Lettieri/Lucchini?  Is he better?

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    Protec

    MN has depth at this level. If a guy has to clear waivers or another team picks him up, that's how it goes. MN will get a good look during training camp. 

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    mnfaninnc

    Clarke's had 2 strong season at Utica, came up to the Devils for 3 games and posted a -2. He's listed at 6' 174. That will compete fine in the A. That won't get it done in the N. 

    I'm just going to go out on a limb and say that if Clarke comes into training camp at 185, he'll get a long look. But, at 6', he really needs to be around 200-205. I realize people get tired of these projections, but this is the game, you've got to have plenty of muscle. At 6' 174 there's no chance that he's going into a corner with Morrissey and coming out the other side with the puck. It won't happen vs. Nashville, St. Louis, Dallas or Colorado. He's simply not strong enough. This was Beckman's exact problem too. Maybe with a change of scenery and hearing the same thing from a different front office, it will kick in. He doesn't really need conditioning, he needs strength.

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