Minnesota Wild: Ryan Strome Trade Better Option Than a PTO

As the Wild look to make decisions on their opening day forward lineup a trade for the Islanders Ryan Strome could offer a great opportunity. The former 5th overall pick could be brought in now or later for a reasonable price to fill a starting spot or simply fill out the depth chart.

The offseason has been a challenge for the Minnesota Wild living in a relatively constraining salary cap environment. But still they were pretty successful being able to sign Eric Staal and Chris Stewart on the first day of free-agency as well as wrap up RFAs Jason Zucker and Matt Dumba later in the summer. And moreover they still have a bit left in cap space to the tune of $2.17 million. So it seems that the…