Editor note: Just before this report was scheduled to be posted, TSN’s Pierre LeBrun reported that Matt Kiersted has signed with the Florida Panthers.
Over the past decade, the Minnesota Wild have been active in the undrafted college free agent market, with mixed results. On one hand, the Wild have been able to woo and sign valuable prospects (and fan favorites) like Nico Sturm and Nate Prosser, and going even farther back, Pascal Dupuis and all-time Wild great Niklas Backstrom. But for their home runs, there have been strikeouts like Christian Folin, Zack Mitchell and Casey Wellman who never panned out.