When Paul Fenton was hired as the Minnesota Wild’s General Manager this offseason, the talk of the town was of tweaking a roster that, while consistently making the playoffs, was not good enough to make a prolonged playoff push. Instead of making moves for the sake of making a move, Fenton opted instead to keep the roster largely intact and fill out the bottom of the roster with some NHL veterans.
While this seems like the easy move, it was a gamble. Paul Fenton was gambling that this veteran core still had some gas in the tank and so far he has been richly rewarded.