The Minnesota Wild have lots of tough decisions to make before the start of the 2017-18 season. With seven roster players up for free-agency and many of them due a significant bump in pay there will certainly be players who will cannot be retained. Looking ahead now one player who future past this season with the team is in serious jeopardy, is defenseman Nate Prosser. Prosser will be an unrestricted free-agent next season and as it seems now will be expendable when time comes to start building the team for 2017-18.
Prosser’s case is interesting for a bunch of reasons.