Although trading picks for win-now players goes further back for the Wild, the recent trend started back in the 2011 NHL Entry Draft. The Minnesota Wild had a pair of first round picks and a second round pick but then weren’t back on the board until round five.
The trend from there has been that the Minnesota Wild never quite have a full draft quota of seven picks, one in each round; 2012 being the one exception to that rule with Matt Dumba falling to them with their 1st round pick (7th overall).
2013 saw no first round pick for the team, with the now-traded Gustav Olofsson their first name off the board in the 2nd round (46th overall).