It is the most hectic, chaotic, anxiety-driving time of year in the NHL calendar: The days between the draft and free agency. Everyone is glued to their phones; notifications turned on for just about any credible source’s tweets, and with any inch of movement towards a transaction, we all get extremely excited at any possibility of it happening.
Well, for the cap-strapped Minnesota Wild, there might not be as much as there was just last summer, as they attempted to re-structure their entire blue line and add some offensive depth up front. And having already signed goaltender Marc-Andre Fleury to a two-year deal, and restricted free agent defenseman Jake Middleton to three more years, the Wild don’t have a lot left on their to-do list.