Although it is tough to blame the team for the trading of draft picks, they were at the time a team with legitimate playoff and Stanley Cup hopes from 2013-2018. The trading of several draft picks by the old Chuck Fletcher regime has had it’s negative impacts on the Minnesota Wild, and that can be seen today in the lack of young high end talent in the organization and just the overall depth of prospects, which clearly has been a contributing factor in the situation the team currently finds itself in. An old and aging core, with some youth on the brink of making an impact in the NHL, but aside from KHL superstar Kirill Kaprizov (who is at least another year away) and recent 2019 first round pick Matthew Boldy, the group of young players they have aren’t all that high end in terms of skill.
How’d They Do?: State Of The Wild’s Prospect Pool After the 2019 NHL Draft
