On Tuesday morning, the Minnesota Wild shocked the entire hockey world and those that reached far into the continent, as they announced that they will be buying out the remaining four years on both Zach Parise and Ryan Suter’s massive extensions they signed as free agents back in the summer of 2012.
While the move will leave a massive imprint of their future salary cap and how they deal with the upcoming expansion draft next week, the Wild are moving on from two of the franchise faces for the last decade. Two players that were brought here to install a new sense of meaningfulness for Minnesota hockey and now they are simply just gone.