2024/2025 NHL/WILD Offseason-Season-Postseason Thread

The sign that Gus was holding up was absolutely epic.https://x.com/mnwild/status/1885183768560099512

CaptainMusky wrote:

The sign that Gus was holding up was absolutely epic.

I saw that too, couldn’t figure out if it was real or fake…

I was trying to figure it out too. It seems like it would be and if it is they did an excellent job with it.

Dudes are gonna get paid….NHL/NHLPA put out their cap limit estimates for the next 3 years… Sign Rossi ASAP!!!!

What a game by the Wild and there’s another sporting event that you can’t script as well as it actually turned out. Fluery shows up one last time and just to put an exclamation point on it, net-minds a shutout.

Total class shown by Montreal. The last 10 minutes you could hear the crowd roar every time Fluery made a save. THEY wanted a shutout. Wow.

Rossi is a freaking stallion and he’s gonna get PAID.

Ohgren! Way to go. It was almost comical the way all of a sudden he was standing all alone in front of the net with the puck. About half the players in the league in the same situation would have shot that puck over the top of the net.

As somebody else said, Marat is looking awesome. Tha Shore / MK / Lauko line is really giving opponents fits, they’re just all over them.

I went to the previous two home games in person and now you look at the last two games on the road and it’s like a completely different team out there. It’s pretty bizarre.

pretty cool

Does Rossi expect the Boldy contract? That would be $8m x 7 years with new cap projection. Rossi (just using last 2 seasons) has significantly lower production than Boldy did at the time he signed, while Boldy was also 2 years younger. The Boldy contract is super team friendly though so not sure it’s fair to use that as a comp. Rossi is a center so I guess has that going for him, but otherwise no idea how he argues for more $$$ than Boldy

Boldy age 20-21: 46g-56a-102p in 128 games
Rossi age 22-23: 39g-47a-86p in 134 games

tswoboda wrote:

Does Rossi expect the Boldy contract? That would be $8m x 7 years with new cap projection. Rossi (just using last 2 seasons) has significantly lower production than Boldy did at the time he signed, while Boldy was also 2 years younger. The Boldy contract is super team friendly though so not sure it’s fair to use that as a comp. Rossi is a center so I guess has that going for him, but otherwise no idea how he argues for more $$$ than Boldy

Boldy age 20-21: 46g-56a-102p in 128 games
Rossi age 22-23: 39g-47a-86p in 134 games

Biggest difference I see is that Boldy has had exclusive PP1 membership the past 3 seasons, where Rossi has only filled in when injuries dictate it…honestly, looking at those cap projections for the next 3 years, it won’t matter if he’s 7x$7 or 7x$8, either way it’s going to be way under market value in a year or two… Any type of bridge deal is going to cost $10+ in 2 years IF he maintains the level of play he’s had this season…

That’s why GM’s get paid the big bucks (or get fired) they need to make that projection decision…sofar GMBG has been pretty damn good…

Yeah I just think the conversation from the team point of view will be “do you really think we can pay you more than Boldy”? And I mean that in cap%; not actually $AAV. Did Boldy start on PP1 his sophomore season, or get moved there when Kaprizov got hurt?

I think it’s interesting how Boldy is having such a down season and tough to watch so many nights, but still only 1 point behind Rossi… who is having the greatest season in the history of a young Wild player

tswoboda wrote:

Yeah I just think the conversation from the team point of view will be “do you really think we can pay you more than Boldy”? And I mean that in cap%; not actually $AAV. Did Boldy start on PP1 his sophomore season, or get moved there when Kaprizov got hurt?

I think it’s interesting how Boldy is having such a down season and tough to watch so many nights, but still only 1 point behind Rossi… who is having the greatest season in the history of a young Wild player

I think Boldy has been on PP1 since about 20 games into his rookie season? He’s had 26 & 25 PP points the previous 2 seasons, he has 13 sofar this season, Rossi had 6 last year and 10 sofar this season when he’s finally had a chunk of games on the PP1 unit when Zuccy got nutted and now sporadically with Kirill out (Foligno getting in as well? wtf)

I don’t think Rossi gets more % to Cap than Boldy because Boldy scores more goals and that’s weighed more heavily, I think Rossi would prefer to go the 6 year route in order to get the next contract starting at under 30 years old… i’d be fine with a 6 year x 7.5-8aav or if he wants to max out, 8 x $6.5-7 (I don’t know what the discount % is for adding more term years? There’s also factoring in how many UFA years your getting from him in the deal…)

The kid is humble, has shown he can stay healthy and he’s willing to work on the areas he needs to improve on, not sure what more you can ask from a young player…at worst he’s an solid point producing 2C at about what the market pays those type of players in a few years, but if he keeps improving he could be a 1C averaging 80+ points a season making $7-$8 aav, that’s a steal…

Knowing PP1 time = more point opportunities, will Rossi ever get on the PP1 unit? Assuming Kirill re-signs and Ek stays as the net front guy due to his size and in close stick skills, where does Rossi fit in a future Wild PP1? (especially one that absolutely needs a right hand shot)

Kaprizov – Ek – Boldy – Buium – Signed UFA like Boesser?/Yurov?/Rossi?

tswoboda wrote:

I think it’s interesting how Boldy is having such a down season and tough to watch so many nights, but still only 1 point behind Rossi… who is having the greatest season in the history of a young Wild player

I think the arguments have been he’s Jekyll and Hyde… He’ll get 3 points in a game and look like a rockstar, then disappear for 2-3 games and look completely lost, then score 4 goals in 3 games, then look lost again for 2 games, rinse repeat…He’s been a streaky scorer his entire career…so fans (and probably the Wild staff) are just frustrated he can’t keep the good streaks together longer and minimize the lost moments…some of his PP zone entry and cross-ice saucer pass attempts just make you shake your head at wtf was he thinking?