The Wild are just too deep to make this simple. Unless they’re crafty they’ll end up exposing at least one valuable forward as well as a quality defenseman, and they’re understandably the target of much trade talk as the expansion draft approaches.
Forward Decisions
Minnesota has eight regularly-used forwards eligible for the draft and three other RFAs – one their top scorer, another their fourth-best, and the last just .013 face-off success percentage points behind perennial league-leader Mikko Koivu.
Three have no movement clauses – Zach Parise, Koivu, and Jason Pominville.