The re-alignment of the Minnesota Wild coaching staff was a foregone conclusion when Bruce Boudreau was hired. On May 23rd that shake-up came as the Wild let go assistant coaches Rick Wilson and Darryl Sydor, and moved Andrew Brunette to the front office. It wasn’t expected to take long too long to find two replacements for Sydor and Wilson to coach behind the bench, but it was widely speculated that Boudreau would bring in one of his former associates.
Today one of the two open assistant slots was filled, and not with a Boudreau associate.