Prior to Wednesday’s signing of Matt Cullen to a one-year deal worth $1 million plus $700K in potential bonuses, the Wild looked to be wrapping up what had previously seemed like a rather abysmal offseason, save for a couple bright spots – minimizing the damage sustained in the Expansion Draft, as well as the recent re-signings of Nino Niederreiter and Mikael Granlund to remarkably reasonable deals. In my most “Minnesota Nice” way, I passive-aggressively ripped into the job that Chuck Fletcher had done this summer in this very polite but scathing article explaining how I had hoped I was wrong, but believed the Wild had regressed.
Matt Cullen signing salvaged this offseason for the Wild
