In the 2019-20 Player Review series, we will evaluate the 2019-20 performances of each member of the Minnesota Wild during the regular season. Players were evaluated based on overall performance with regard to pre-season expectations and how that player performed in their particular role.
The date was February 25, 2019. It was the NHL trade deadline, and former Minnesota Wild general manager Paul Fenton was about to make one of the more divisive trades in the franchise’s 20-year history.
At 2:40 p.m. ET, news broke that the Wild had traded forward Mikael Granlund, one of the best players on the team, to the Nashville Predators for .