The trial period is over. Joel Eriksson Ek has played 9 games, and the Wild have a decision to make. They can either keep Eriksson Ek with the Minnesota Wild, which will burn a year off his entry level contract, or they can send him to Iowa or back to Sweden. Burning a year off his ELC now doesn’t effect all that much immediately. He will still be exempt from the expansion draft and he will still have a couple of years left on a cheap contract. Fletcher has said he isn’t worried about burning a year on Eriksson Ek’s contract, but when it comes to re-signing him in a few years, the Wild GM might wish he saved that extra year.
The Wild have hit a Crossroad with Joel Eriksson Ek
