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Should the Wild Bring Back Haula as Their Fourth Line Center?

Erik Haula and the Minnesota Wild are scheduled to head to arbitration on July 31. With just Haula left to sign, the Wild are sitting right around $2 million in cap space (assuming a roster constructed similar to this). Haula made $900K last year, and put up pretty underwhelming numbers across the board. He was very good on the penalty kill, but I would imagine contribution in that regard may be difficult to definitively quantify and valuate in an arbitration hearing; mostly due to the fact that the Wild as a whole were great on the kill, so it's difficult to parse the contributions of an individual player.