HELP WANTED: A Wish List for the Minnesota Wild’s next General Manager

After yesterday’s departure of long-time general manager Chuck Fletcher, Craig Leipold and the Minnesota Wild are going to be searching far and wide for a new person to lead the organization.

But what kind of candidate will they want? What qualities should Minnesota be searching for in a new general manager?

Here are the things that I would look for and prioritize:

Under Fletcher and now-interim general manager Brent Flahr, there has been a prototype of player that Minnesota seeks out during the draft. They tended to place value on size, two-way ability, and character.

Those are good qualities, obviously, but very few players were drafted by Fletcher and Flahr with offense in mind. Of course…