Minnesota Wild 2021-22 Season Preview

Photo by Ronald Martinez/Getty ImagesWe've seen what a similar version of this Minnesota Wild can do. Compete inarguably the strongest division in the league for the 2020-21 season and finish the season by taking a heavily favored Vegas Golden Knights team to seven games in the playoffs. The storylines for 2020-21 were strong. Bill Guerin was brought in as General Manager in the summer of 2019 to usher in a new era. Mikko Koivu, the longest-serving captain in team history, was gone. Onetime franchise cornerstones Ryan Suter and Zach Parise were starting to slow down, their effectiveness as contributors questioned.

But it wasn't all doom and gloom. Kirill Kaprizov finally donned the Wild…