Sounds like Hobey finalist Isaac Howard is choosing to return to Michigan State for his senior year because he’s pissed the Tampa Bay didn’t sign him to his ELC (they literally have pennies of capspace left and tried to get him to sign an AHL tryout contract instead) So expect his draft rights to get traded sometime before next August unless Tampa can repair the relationship…
wow!
RIP. Was he sick? Or what the hell happened? That’s two homegrown Wild front office guys passing away way too you in the last few years
I suspect he was dealing with something, I didn’t see him in the latest Wild video about the Trade Deadline and he for sure would have been in the room if he was healthy…
RIP Ray Shero… very sad…
Who knows what “When Legal details are agreed upon” means and/or the timing that takes, but Yurov is coming to the Wild…
If the Wild win tonight I believe they eliminate the Canucks (who play the Avs on Thursday) which obviously changes how Vancouver plays on Saturday which could be super important if Calgary wins on friday…
Just win tonight…
I wonder if the strategy is to play them tonight and Friday and if they get 2 wins then sit them for the last 2 games to work out the likely post return aches and to ensure they’ll play in game 1 of the playoffs?
Obviously if they lose then they keep playing them…
How is it even possible to score 3 goals in a minute?
This is how
If Yurov were in the Demidov or Nikishin talent tier, he’d be signed by now. They’d make it work, bonuses and elc years be damned
wasn’t Kirill?
Unbelievable, Vancouver keeps its slim playoff chances alive by scoring 3 goals in the final minute to tie Dallas and then wins in OT!
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it sure sounds like the Wild might roll the dice and try to keep Kirill and Ek out until the playoffs to give them maximum recoup time UNLESS they MUST win one of the final games to get into the playoffs…If they win their next 2 games and Calgary loses it won’t matter…So much for getting back into game shape by playoffs, eh?
If they keep them out I’d say GMBG owes the fans an answer on why he didn’t use their LTIR at the deadline…
But
What would you expect him to say? “I didn’t want to move major assets when we’re not good enough this year?” of course not, he’ll give some canned answer that they were tricky injuries and they just didn’t know how ling they would be out….
It is what it is, at least we’ll be closest all season to fully healthy for the playoffs…
Go back a few posts, we couldn’t afford his bonuses with our cap at the start of the season and Russo said the Wild felt his KHL team brought him back early from surgery and they want his ankle to fully heal is a reason he’s not brought over right now? Who knows??
Russians are wildcards, although it feels like the bigger franchises dont have problems getting their Russians signed and brought over…
hopefully he signs June 1st and comes to MN early to acclimate and we get 3 full ELC seasons vs 2…
<div class=”d4p-bbt-quote-title”>JoeMX1825 wrote:</div>
If they win their next 2 gamesLet’s be honest here. God help us if they lose at home to the Sharks.
be careful of the sleeper game before the HUGE back to back games coming up Friday & Saturday…
it sure sounds like the Wild might roll the dice and try to keep Kirill and Ek out until the playoffs to give them maximum recoup time UNLESS they MUST win one of the final games to get into the playoffs…If they win their next 2 games and Calgary loses it won’t matter…
Gotcha yeah I meant his current club I am sure will try to pressure him into signing another 1 year deal in the next month or so.
for sure…from what he said in an interview last summer, his plan was to head for the NHL after this season, we’ll see…
Kirill didn’t look very good on the ice today… looked like a 1st timer… not good.. watch the video link
Not sure what the Huh? Part was but my other statement was about his current team trying to sign him again to another 1 year deal before his actual contract is up and we all know that these Russians have no desire to play in Iowa so hopefully he is NHL ready right away because signing a contract almost guarantees him a spot on the big club.
I thought you were talking about the Wild…that’s why it made no sense to me..
The B bonuses count against the current year cap no matter what, the A bonuses met count against the following year…
Right. They can’t afford to sign him this year. I’m sure they will
Make it as difficult to sign him next year as well but hopefully he is willing and ready to play in the NHL right out of the gate.
Huh?
They would have needed to figure out how to fit another $2.5 million in capspace at the start of this season when they only had pennies of space left, even though there’s likely no chance he would have met any of the B bonuses
“B” Level Bonuses:
-Forwards: Top Ten in NHL Forward Goals, Assists, points, or points per game (min 42 GP)
-Defensemen: Top Ten in NHL Defensemen Goals, Assists, points, ice time or points per game (min 42 GP) for Defensemen
-Win any of the following trophies: Hart, Selke, Richard, Conn Smythe, Norris
-1st or 2nd team All-Star
It’s been reported the wild would not try and buy out the rest of this year and try to get him over this year but yes there is that risk of him resigning again. Also probably a risk just to try and get him over here.
I’d be happy to get the full 3rd year of his ELC if he signs AFTER this season, but its just worrisome…Russo just put out a story that he DIDN’T sign last season with the Wild because his agent demanded B level bonuses get added to his ELC and because B level bonuses MUST be part of your team’s capspace, the Wild just couldn’t fit them in cap wise (even though the B level bonuses most likely wouldn’t be attainted by Yurov) Russo said the team would include them next season as they have the capspace to do so….
Sounds like alot of KHL teams are not releasing players out of contracts that expire in the next few months in an attempt to try and persuade them to re-sign… looks like Yurov’s team is one of them…
We heard about this a year or so ago that the KHL would increase pressure on keeping their young stars vs letting them go to the NHL… I guess it all depends on what the NHL team is willing to pay the KHL team to let them go…Rumors are Philly paid a ton of $ to get Mitchkov out of his KHL contract…
This kind of drama is what leads to the “Russian Factor” come draft day…it’s always a wild card getting them to your team, nothing is done by the book (because Russia doesn’t follow a book)
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Its not a win and in game (at least not with todays standings) but it will heavily influence the outcome…
I believe the magic number is 3?
and the Flames won, its going to come down to Friday night….
Wow, they surprised me today!!!!
Boldy & Rossi carried them again…
Obviously a huge point we didn’t expect to get in this game… now if we can find a way to friggin try to win in OT!
Great effort by Jojo to not get out to block Harley’s shot that turned into a goal… it might have hurt….
Really getting sick & tired of Oettenger owning us….
Oooof bad goal given up by Gus… not a good start…
They showed Gretzky’s stats from each 100 goal range side by side with Ovi and it was incredible. Ovi has been so dang consistent it’s crazy.
The 4 differences I think about when comparing Gretzky’s 894 goals and Ovi’s 895 is that Gretzky was playing with 3-4 future Hall of Famers for the majority of his years in Edmonton (that would likely never be possible in Ovi’s salary cap era) and the goalie talent back when Gretzky played is nothing like it is in Ovi’s era… Ovi’s era got the benefit of eliminating clutching & grabbing and the improved stick/equipment technology…. It’s cool we got to see two completely different style of players score 894+ goals(Gretzky with the finesse/thinking game, Ovi with the Russian tank/power game)
How those compare to each other and which had a bigger benefit is a much longer discussion for another time…
Crazy thing about Ovi breaking the record is that he missed about the equivalent of 2 NHL seasons due to the lockout and covid shortened seasons… 2!!
He’s likely be close to 1,000 goals if he played them…
Apparently Middleton escaped major injury, he’ll be ready for the playoffs if not sooner…
Calgary tied Vegas last night so the point differential is 4 and Calgary still has a game in hand and we play them in Calgary on Friday.
The craziest part is their game in hand is the very last game of the season vs the Kings due to the original game getting cancelled months ago due to the California wild fires.
So its possible the Wild won’t know their playoff fait until the last gameof the regular season ends… oh and the Kings probably won’t have any reason to play the game for seeding purposes and will rest their stars for the playoffs…Sounds great huh?
Its also worth noting Calgary would need 5 wins in regulation of their last 6 games to even the tiebreaker, so they don’t control their fate with just the game in hand and the vs Wild in Calgary game…
A win today against Dallas would reduce the % of this happening alot!
