2023/2024 NHL/WILD Offseason-Season-Postseason Thread

Ripjiggen wrote:

Well this song sure has changed.

Rossi and Faber were too good… ruined Billy G’s 5-year plan for world domination

Ripjiggen wrote:

Well this song sure has changed.

care to elaborate?

So you knew Faber was going to turn into a future $8+ aav player this year? That’s a huge chunk of change I wasn’t thinking about spending internally vs Free Agency before this season started…

Now a trade rumor I can actually see not being total BS is that Fleury is reported to be attracting interest from basically everybody and their dog who has playoff ambitions and weak goaltending. With MAF being a UFA and even looking at retirement, I’d think there might be some attraction in him waving his no move clause to make one more run at the cup.

Hockey Wilderness laid out a list of possible teams who could or should be goaltender-shopping for the playoffs. Hurricanes, Pens, Kings, Leafs, Oilers, Avalanche.

He’s such a great team presence, I’d hate to see him go, but also I’m not sure what the chances are even if he stayed that he’d be resigning with the Wild for next season. Not sure what the Wild could reasonably get in return, but could it be surprisingly high if things in some playoff-desperate market like Edmonton or Toronto were to experience a slump in their already shaky goaltending situation toward the deadline?

The only place Flower is allowed to be traded is LA, where he can tandem with Cam Talbot

I can’t see how Flower wouldn’t want one last shot at a cup, he’s currently tied with Grant Fuhr for 3rd all time in playoff wins, so 1 more to move solely into 3rd…

He would likely be a backup, so odds would be tough to hit trade conditions unless the starter gets hurt or fails miserably and Flower comes in and they go on a run… My guess on trade return is probably a 4th round pick with the possibility to move up to a 3rd or 2nd based on playoff win conditions (probably 4 and 8 wins) Kinda depends on what other goalies are available as they are in high demand this season, the contenders could get desperate and jack up the return..

Colorado or Carolina makes the most sense imo…

The Oilers and Leafs should be the most desperate

Starting tonight the Wild have 20 games left until the March 8th trade deadline.

5 of those 20 are against Chicago, San Jose, Anaheim, St Louis and Buffalo, so winnable… the other 15 are mostly playoff teams or still battling for a Wildcard spot.

Here’s who we could trade and would likely get offers for:
Fleury
Duhaime
Maroon
Bogosain
Dewar (RFA)

Flower will likely get the best return, it never hurts to give Judd more bullets to shoot with, but don’t expect any good picks, lots of 5th & 6th rounders, Maybe GMBG can get the Tampa GM drunk and get him to offer up a Jeannot package for Duhaime..:)
…I suspect the team wants to keep Dewar…

The Wild currently have 1st, 2nd, 4th, 2x5th, 6th round picks in the 2024 Draft. They have zero capspace so there will be no brokering deals this year.

JoeMX1825 wrote:

They have zero capspace so there will be no brokering deals this year.

If by chance their tiny, almost microscopic, captain (#46) gets season ending surgery, then they would have plenty of cap space in the LTIR pool. I’m not sure if they can dip into that to retain money in exchange for picks or not.

JoeMX1825 wrote:

<div class=”d4p-bbt-quote-title”>Ripjiggen wrote:</div>
Well this song sure has changed.

care to elaborate?

So you knew Faber was going to turn into a future $8+ aav player this year? That’s a huge chunk of change I wasn’t thinking about spending internally vs Free Agency before this season started…

Wasn’t that long ago you were shopping/listing 1C free agents in 2025 because the Wild were going to have more money than every team in the league.

Strange TNT telecast last night, they were supposed to show the Chicago vs Buffalo game but it was cancelled last minute due to a snow storm so they had the guys in the studio basically do play by play for the Florida vs Detroit game video feed as a last minute solution…

No script, so it was pretty funny

Here’s 1 clip- https://x.com/br_openice/status/1748034536384979229?s=46&t=uoRWUp28rKzoSODmtmr3Lw

Ripjiggen wrote:

Wasn’t that long ago you were shopping 1C free agents in 2025 because the Wild were going to have more money than every team in the league.

(insert Faber turned into a young star before our eyes here) (insert Rossi would only get a cheap bridge deal here)

So 1 Dman takes out the chance of a 1C.
That don’t sound promising.
Sounds like they will be built the exact same way as before then.

Ripjiggen wrote:

So 1 Dman takes out the chance of a 1C.
That don’t sound promising.
Sounds like they will be built the exact same way as before then.

yeah a 2 season ELC Defensive player likely getting $8+ doesn’t happen very often…also didn’t expect Hartman and Foligno extensions totaling $8 million, I figured they would get moved for younger players…

So BG basically did what every GM the Wild have done but strung it out with buyouts. Swell.
At least we have something to look forward to with the greatest prospect pool of all time.

tswoboda wrote:

If by chance their tiny, almost microscopic, captain (#46) gets season ending surgery, then they would have plenty of cap space in the LTIR pool. I’m not sure if they can dip into that to retain money in exchange for picks or not.

Ooops

Man… hip surgery followed by back surgery 4 weeks later. Feel bad for him, that’s crappy.

Please don’t trade for that LTIR pool player… just let this season play out as-is…

Tanev
Walker
Hannifin
Dumba (lol)
Lybushkin
Seeler (LOL)

They’re picking someone up, and if they do it soon, they could always flip that player again before the deadline.

Poor Spurgeon. Even when he was on the ice, something looked off.

The last half of this season we might get a real good glimpse into both the owner and GM’s role in this franchise. And the future grit to do what’s needed to build a cup contending team.

That assist put Faber in the top 5 Rookie scoring list…

Good lord our D are just terrible…

OK Rossi pots one let’s go.

3 point night for Midstrom

They’re keeping this close but my God do they look terrible at times

tswoboda wrote:

3 point night for Midstrom

They’re keeping this close but my God do they look terrible at times

Unreal how they are only down by one playing this bad.

JoeMX1825 wrote:

it would sure be nice to see Rossi break out of his mini slump (0 points and -6 in his last 5 games) and have a multi-point game tonight, the kid has had chances but just can’t bury it lately…

The next 10 games are when Rossi and Faber need to push through the “rookie wall”

Thatta boy Marco!

The Rossi Middelton connection we all saw coming.

That Jojo penalty is both soft and stupid

I swear Bogo is on the ice for like 80% of our goals against…

Great trip by KK.

Kucherov and Point are just next level players… they are playing 4D chess out there…

Gus deserved better. He has made a lot of great saves but our d zone and PK has sucked.