Well, the first day of NHL free agency came and went and it wasn’t without a couple fireworks for the Minnesota Wild. While it might not have been the show-stopper that they made back in 2012, they put together a couple reasonable contracts together and didn’t overpay or overstep any boundaries that led us down a path of wondering what the hell this team was doing.
Within hours after 11:00 a.m., the Wild locked-up hometown defenseman Alex Goligoski to a one-year, $5-million contract that might eventually turn into something bigger. It’s rumored that they have a semi-verbal agreement that if everything goes well, there will be a contract extension with a much lower cap hit on January 1, when extensions for one-year deals are able to be signed.