The date was July 4th, 2012, it’s quite possibly one of the more exciting days in the history of the Minnesota Wild. The Wild front office excited their fans with the signings of Zach Parise and Ryan Suter to 13-year, $98 million contracts.
Parise, the hometown kid was the top free agent on the market that summer and Suter was the top defenseman on the market. The signings had Wild fans everywhere dreaming of the Stanley Cup coming to The State of Hockey.
Well, the Wild and their fans are seven years in to the Parise and Suter era and there is still no Stanley Cup.