With the Minnesota Wild’s season long over and a stall in the Kevin Fiala trade rumors, it seems appropriate to take inventory of the team’s assets going into this draft.
After a stellar 113-point season, the team’s first-round draft slot is the latest in recent memory (24th overall). The Wild also traded away their second-round pick in the flurry of deadline-day deals, namely the one which brought Marc-Andre Fleury to St. Paul on Craig Leipold’s private jet.
In spite of this, Billy G finds himself in possession of three picks in the first two rounds.