In NHL free agency, sometimes a player and a team matchup and we all go “yup that works” and the two sides almost immediately agree on a deal. For the Minnesota Wild, that’s what it might just be like as they try to get defenseman Alex Goligoski’s signature on Wednesday.
Widely reported as the one veteran blueliner that the team has specifically looked out for in free agency, the Grand Rapids, Minn. native might just end up coming home within the first couple hours after the clock strikes 11:00 a.m.
At 35 years old, Goligoski certainly isn’t the spry young man that he once was when he won the 2009 Stanley Cup with now Wild GM Bill Guerin as a teammate, he’s slowly become one of the rare reliable blueliners that has aged gracefully into his mid-30’s.