After several offseasons facing the same problem, Minnesota Wild general manager Bill Guerin faced a new one this summer. With the cap restrictions due to the Zach Parise and Ryan Suter buyouts finally removed, the Wild had plenty of cap space to make a splash on the free agency market. The new problem - no one to spend it on. With all due respect to Nikolaj Ehlers and Mikael Granlund, the 2025 Free Agency class was a bit less than franchise-altering.
So, some credit is to be extended to Guerin for his fiscal restraint, something that NHL GMs aren’t often lauded for (cough, Tanner Jeannot, cough, $17 million, cough).