Veteran NHL center Mikael Granlund will need to catch his breath after his life got turned upside down Monday.
Granlund, who has played each of his seven NHL seasons for the Wild, was traded at the deadline to the Predators. And the trade couldn’t have come at a worse time. Wild GM Paul Fenton told reporters that he had to deliver the news to Granlund while he was with his wife, who was in labor.
“I did talk to him as a father and now a grandfather,” Nashville GM David Poile told reporters. “I didn’t even say anything to him about the trade for five minutes.