The Minnesota Wild are at front and center yet again and it is because they traded away star winger Kevin Fiala to the Los Angeles Kings, in return for the 19th overall pick next month and top defenseman prospect Brock Faber. Of course a mountainous pile of context is needed to understand why Minnesota would trade Fiala — including contract negotiation, upcoming free agency, their own cap restrictions — but what do we think about the trade?
Let’s go around the virtual writers’ room and find out.
Thomas — The Fiala trade, unfortunately, needs that context of what situation the Wild are currently in.