The Minnesota Wild knew Ryan White for 19 regular season games and 3 playoff games this year. Yet the story of White and the Wild goes all the way back to 2011 when he would score his first NHL goal against the Wild on March 20th as part of the pinnacle in grinder/enforcer achievements, a Gordie Howe hat trick. Fast forward nearly 6 years and White would find himself as part of a trade that would send him and Martin Hanzal to the Wild in exchange for a couple draft picks nobody really wanted anyway.
Ryan White was not the 4th line hero he was billed to be
