Shayna Goldman of The Athletic: The Minnesota Wild bought out Ryan Suter and Zach Parise and freed up $10.3 million for next season The Wild also need to re-sign Kirill Kaprizov and Kevin Fiala, and that won’t come cheap.
Dom Luszczyszyn’s model has Fiala at $6.9 million over seven years but his market value may be closer to $6.3 million per. Evolving-Hockey has Fiala at five years at $6.1 million.
The Wild locked up Joel Erikson Ek for eight years, what about Fiala and Kaprizov.