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NHL Mock Draft 2021: Minnesota Wild makes draft day trade

The Minnesota Wild are in desperate need of hypothetical cap space, so we traded a hypothetical defenseman in our hypothetical 2021 NHL Draft to the Philadelphia Flyers.

Matt Dumba is on his way to Philadelphia, and so is his contract paying him $6 million a year. In return, we got a pretty sweet deal that will help the future core of this team.

Wild receive: Flyers 2021 1st-round pick (13th overall), F Elliot Desnoyers

Flyers receive: D Matt Dumba

Doing so gets the Wild their third first-round selection this year and a young winger that projects to be a solid middle-six with some scoring upside that the Flyers drafted in the fifth round just last year.