Michael Russo of the Star Tribune: The Wild’s expansion situation is well known and rumors have surrounded the team. If a team acquired someone from the Wild, they’d also have to have the room to protect him.
“We’ve talked to other teams,” said Brent Flahr, the Wild’s senior vice president of hockey operations, on Wednesday. “If we want to move players, we can certainly move players, but at the same time, we’re hoping maybe we can get something done with Vegas. We’d obviously have to pay a price of some kind [to make a trade with Vegas], but the reality is we’re going to lose a player [to expansion].