Kevin Fiala’s ascent as one of the Wild’s best and most promising players has turned into a victory lap in absentia for former general manager Paul Fenton.
There were plenty of questionable things about his tenure, the full weight of which added up to Fenton being fired after just one season on the job, but trading Mikael Granlund for Fiala is looking like his brightest shining moment.
It got me thinking about other figures in Minnesota sports history who maybe, ahem, aren’t viewed favorably overall — and how so many of them at least got one very big thing right.