Around one o’clock today, GM Joe Ferras and the Rapid City Rush announced they’d be joining the Iowa Wild and the Minnesota Wild. After losing their ECHL affiliate to Vegas earlier this June, the Hockey Ops staff for the Wild are adding their 9th ECHL affiliate since their founding in 2000. Rapid City signs on with Iowa and Minnesota after a three year stint with the Arizona Coyotes and the Springfield Falcons/Tuscon Roadrunners, and the hopes of developing Minnesota’s next round of potential NHLers. The team in South Dakota comes as a bit of a project, however, as the Rush are coming off of their worst season since joining the ECHL; their first (and only) under former career-minor leaguer, Mark DeSantis.
Minnesota adds the ECHL’s Rapid City Rush to the organization
