At this point of training camp, halfway through, any players being cut now were clearly not in the coach’s plans for the coming season. They will all need some more conditioning and to show improvement before getting another look at the Minnesota Wild roster.
Still, these players were all hopeful to get a further chance to continue their case in fighting for a roster spot and will likely be disappointed with getting told they would be travelling down the highway for the Iowa preseason to begin.
“The team assigned goaltenders Kaapo Kahkonen and C.J. Motte, defensemen Louis Belpedio, Gustav Bouramman, Eric Martinsson and Brennan Menell and forwards Colton Beck, Gerry Fitzgerald, Pavel Jenys, Chase Lang, Gerald Mayhew, Dante Salituro, Mason Shaw and Dmitry Sokolov to the Iowa Wild of the American Hockey League (AHL).