After an unfortunate but respectful exit out of the playoffs, the Minnesota Wild have a busy offseason ahead of them. Giving out new contracts to their three top scorers in Kirill Kaprizov, Joel Eriksson Ek, and Kevin Fiala, pondering whether or not to re-sign some veterans, what to do with Zach Parise — but the cloud that affects every single transaction through this entire league is looming. The Seattle Kraken expansion draft is coming soon and GM Bill Guerin has to deal with it.
In his sort-of-exit availability, he made it clear that he’s going to try and strategize and have conversations with Seattle GM Ron Francis before the fateful night.