The Wild, and every other current team in the league, will undergo a painful exercise this offseason when the Vegas Ramblers Rattlers Blackjacks Golden Knights draft their team. Every team will be able to protect one goaltender and either seven forwards and three defensemen or a combined eight skaters.
The weaker 2017 draft class likely has many teams considering trading away their first round pick to encourage Vegas GM George McPhee to take or not take certain players. McPhee can also make deals for additional players or even dabble in some threeway trading, so long as a deal does not result in a team recovering the player that Vegas drafted.