Hockey Wilderness · Jul 27, 2021
Free agent options to get Kaprizov his center
Harrison Barden-USA TODAY Sports With five days remaining until the Seattle Kraken expansion draft, the NHL landscape is becoming more turbulent than my gut after eating half a bucket of Sweet Martha’s.
And the Minnesota Wild have had a hand in that. With the window to buyout contracts opening 24 hours after the Stanley Cup Final finished, the Wild bought out once franchise cornerstones Zach Parise and Ryan Suter, effectively simplifying their plans for the expansion draft and opening up approximately $10 million in extra cap space this summer. Why is that cap space so important when GM Bill Guerin already had nearly $16 million to solve his roster problems already?