2022/2023 NHL/Wild Offseason-Season-Postseason Thread

Remember when everybody got pissed off at Kevin Weekes for saying this team had no depth last season? He was right then and even more right now. Last year we had almost no injuries and that’s why that lineup was so good. You take one or two guys out of it and it screws up the whole thing. Fiala not being on the second line leaves no one there with Boldy. I think we all knew it wasn’t going to be great without him but it’s really proving that he WAS this team’s secondary scoring.

And sometimes you just have to take Louis Belpedio and a 7th instead of Brayden Point

mahtofire14 wrote:

Remember when everybody got pissed off at Kevin Weekes for saying this team had no depth last season?

Wrong black dude lol

But I think that whole thing came down to what you want to call depth. Scoring depth they do not have this year. They have one superstar that can create offense every night and that’s it. Last year they had two and when Hartman is scoring 35 and JEEK/Foligo each scoring 25 you can say they have scoring depth. 3rd & 4th liner depth they definitely do have, last year and this year. Their bottom 2 lines are better than the other teams bottom 2 lines almost every night. They just aren’t scoring any goals so it’s not winning them games.

Agree with the above couple comments on Rossi. He may have the talent but you also need a physical presence in the NHL. Hopefully he can grow into that role but not seeing it yet.

tswoboda wrote:

<div class=”d4p-bbt-quote-title”>mahtofire14 wrote:</div>
Remember when everybody got pissed off at Kevin Weekes for saying this team had no depth last season?

Wrong black dude lol

mahtofire14 wrote:

Remember when everybody got pissed off at Kevin Weekes for saying this team had no depth last season? He was right then and even more right now. Last year we had almost no injuries and that’s why that lineup was so good. You take one or two guys out of it and it screws up the whole thing. Fiala not being on the second line leaves no one there with Boldy. I think we all knew it wasn’t going to be great without him but it’s really proving that he WAS this team’s secondary scoring.

Most NHL teams don’t have a lot of depth however. It’s not like the AHL is littered with top 6 NHL guys just waiting for someone to go down. Have to remember the cupboard was completely empty when BG arrived. Most GM’s would have blown it up and tanked. Well It is tough to tank when you have a top 5 player on your team that you hope to resign.

Who said it? Thought it was Weekes….

mahtofire14 wrote:

Who said it? Thought it was Weekes….

Anson Carter

Ripjiggen wrote:

How the wild attain that I am not sure without getting lucky in a draft or tanking as those players really don’t hit FA.

Once the Wild is past its buyout hell it will have more capspace to spend than any other team not named Coyotes… it will likely be are only chance to overpay and lure a UFA #1 center away from re-signing… otherwise we’ll need to strike gold drafting a late bloomer… sofar we’re 0-22 doing that…

Reeves to Wild for a 2025 5th round pick

MN loves its fighters, so he’ll likely become a fan favorite with his personality… its a cheap move by GMBG to hopefully light a fire in terms of team toughness…

I’m sure they’ll get a stud like Kadri, Copp, Trocheck, Strome, Danault, Granlund, Duchene, Hayes, Bozak, or wait for it…. TAVARES.

That’s the list of UFA centers who signed with new teams for $5m+ AAV in the last 5 years – Tavares is the only franchise #1C on that list. The Wild better start investigating who slept in Nordy pajamas as a kid.

JoeMX1825 wrote:

Reeves to Wild for a 2025 5th round pick

Was hoping this was a joke… where’s the puke emoji

Yeah. I get why they did it but I don’t know if I can stomach that goon on our team.

mahtofire14 wrote:

Yeah. I get why they did it but I don’t know if I can stomach that goon on our team.

He’s the top heavyweight in the league and he can skate and hit, maybe every Wild player will feel an inch taller now? Maybe fewer cheap shots on Kaprizov?

Like I said its an inexpensive move to hopefully light a spark…

Greenway coming back and now add Reeves. Should give us some much needed beef. Now pick up Kane from Chicago! Lol

I’m not surprised by the move it all, they need D’Lo to get tougher last year and they’re smaller now than then. If Reavo spot starts and fights or makes a physical presence every game he gets in then ok I get it. But if he is in the lineup every single game with no healthy scratches then this was a terrible move even if they got paid to take him.

He in fact can not skate or do anything else besides hit guys on the forcheck – He is a fighter and that’s it. He was the worst player in the league 2 years ago and only getting worse. All I can see D’Lo in the playoffs last year – am I the only one who saw what a liability he was? I now take back everything I said about the Wild having a good 4th line.

One positive I can see is he’s always a locker room and league favorite character so I’m sure Billy G loved that. And in his defense he’s been on really good teams for a long time so you can say he knows how to be part of a winning culture.

But I still hold fast that he’s the worst actual hockey player in the NHL.

tswoboda wrote:

<div class=”d4p-bbt-quote-title”>JoeMX1825 wrote:</div>
Reeves to Wild for a 2025 5th round pick

Was hoping this was a joke… where’s the puke emoji

Lol I was thinking the same thing. Goon alert

Jost = Steel = Rossi, they are the same player.

All have similar “comparables” in every way; From “expected” upside to draft to junior career to World Junior performance (Except Rossi was on a Terrible team and was sick).

What we are possibly seeing is what happens when the physicality ramps up, when everyone in the league are great players, when there are no weak players to take advantage of.

I am not sure where all the confidence that he is a sure thing comes from, hope I am wrong but the writing is on the wall thus far. Hoping Reeves creates a force field of protection and gives players the likes of Marco time and space to play vs looking like a deer in the headlights….which he has thus far.

mahtofire14 wrote:

had almost no injuries and that’s why that lineup was so good. You take one or two guys out of it and it screws up the whole thing. Fiala not being on the second line leaves no one there with Boldy. I think we all knew it wasn’t going to be great without him but it’s really proving that he WAS this team’s secondary scoring.

The Wild were deep but they dumped their depth: Sturm, Bjugstad, Deslauriers, Feefee Fiala.

To say we didn’t have depth last year was ridiculous. but yeah you are not deep when you dump players due to salaries.

Anson Carter also just sent out a careless tweet calling out the Ohio State CLUB hockey team for being racist. When in fact it was the NCAA D1 team player that made insensitive comments. I have not seen him apologize yet, which is his MO.

Anson Carter is a careless buffoon with an agenda.

I guess you can evaluate his skating Friday… he can be a runway freight train on the forecheck and always worried me he’d take out our skilled players if he connected with them…

at a $1.34 caphit, there’s no issues sitting him in the pressbox against a more finesse team, but he’ll be valuable against the bruiser teams like Nashville and St Louis…

wormdunker wrote:

<div class=”d4p-bbt-quote-title”>mahtofire14 wrote:</div>
had almost no injuries and that’s why that lineup was so good. You take one or two guys out of it and it screws up the whole thing. Fiala not being on the second line leaves no one there with Boldy. I think we all knew it wasn’t going to be great without him but it’s really proving that he WAS this team’s secondary scoring.

The Wild were deep but they dumped their depth: Sturm, Bjugstad, Deslauriers, Feefee Fiala.

To say we didn’t have depth last year was ridiculous. but yeah you are not deep when you dump players due to salaries.

Bjugstad is a 6’6” creampuff, D-Lo was a UFA and got a stupidly huge contract from Philly, Sturm turned down a 5 year deal and wanted to be a UFA that backfired contract wise, Fiala leaving has been discussed to death, he wanted out and a big payday….

JoeMX1825 wrote:

at a $1.34 caphit, there’s no issues sitting him in the pressbox against a more finesse team, but he’ll be valuable against the bruiser teams like Nashville and St Louis…

As I said, I’m on board with that. Same thing they should have done with D’Lo last year, but they didn’t. My issue is if he’s penciled in as an every night player on the 4th line who can’t play D or kill penalties. And I’m guessing that will be the case at least for awhile until the honeymoon phase wears off.

wormdunker wrote:

Anson Carter also just sent out a careless tweet calling out the Ohio State CLUB hockey team for being racist. When in fact it was the NCAA D1 team player that made insensitive comments. I have not seen him apologize yet, which is his MO.

Anson Carter is a careless buffoon with an agenda.

Anson Carter is the real racist. He can’t wait to drop that card and is always looking for someone to do it to. When he basically called Russo a racist last year because Russo crushed his “the Wild have no depth” comment he couldn’t respond intelligently so all he had left was the racist card. No room for him in broadcasting and he drags down a otherwise fantastic crew on TNT. He embarrassed everyone of his colleagues on the set and himself that night.

Ryan Reaves means the Wild just got slower and older and will rack up more short handed minutes.

Bjugstad is a 6’6” creampuff, D-Lo was a UFA and got a stupidly huge contract from Philly, Sturm turned down a 5 year deal and wanted to be a UFA that backfired contract wise, Fiala leaving has been discussed to death, he wanted out and a big payday….
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I wasn’t lamenting the losses and/or reasons for the losses, rather citing the depth we had last year. But thanks for the info that I likely knew before any of it happened. Since you motioned it, last year Bjugstad turned into a protype F1 on the forecheck. He was a monster by the end of the year. He was NO WHERE NEAR a cream puff. His game changed over the course of the year and he did contribute, he created space for others to score. So back to talking about depth last year vs this year, Billy swapped 3 over 6′ physical hard working players for a hand full of sub 6’ers. Thus why I was stating we had depth last year but not this year.

Ryan Reaves – now it’s the FEER line?!
Anson Carter – P– —–
Yeah, I said it. Watched enough of him to know what he’s made of

JoeMX1825 wrote:

<div class=”d4p-bbt-quote-title”>mahtofire14 wrote:</div>
Yeah. I get why they did it but I don’t know if I can stomach that goon on our team.

He’s the top heavyweight in the league and he can skate and hit, maybe every Wild player will feel an inch taller now? Maybe fewer cheap shots on Kaprizov?

Like I said its an inexpensive move to hopefully light a spark…

Can’t wait for the next game against the Kings.

Always hated when Reaves would suit up against my favorite team. It will be interesting to see how he meshes with the Wild.

I think the Reaves trade makes a lot of sense. Sounds like the wild still shopping for top 6 forward.

Wild getting the puck luck arrow moving back towards even now…

Haven’t seen Steel do anything sofar on the 1st line, Kaprizov doing everything himself…