The Minnesota Wild — along with the other 29 participating teams — released their protection list ahead of Wednesday’s expansion draft. The typical names were taken, but there are some juicy players for the Kraken to take from Minnesota.[Hockey Wilderness]
Somewhat loss in the expansion shuffle, the Wild are declining the option to qualify forward Dimitri Sokolov, and he will now be a free agent (but will mostly just play in Russia without NHL rights). [Hockey Wilderness]
Nikita Chibrikov is a player that has been mocked to the Minnesota Wild, well he is very very good.
