While many hockey writers take the summer off, there are plenty of hockey blogs all around SB Nation that all continue to write throughout the offseason. So today, only articles from SBN’s hockey blogs will be featured, and it isn’t only because there wasn’t much else anyways.
The San Jose Sharks are out of an ECHL affiliate, but the Minnesota Wild have a brand new one!
Ideally, the Wild trade neither Niederreiter nor Zucker for prospects and picks that won’t help them win now. However, if contract talks go south with Zucker or if arbitration ruins the relationship between him and the team, Cody Glass or Nick Suzuki would be a pretty good conversation starter.