Hockey Wilderness · Jul 13, 2021
What the buyouts mean for the expansion draft
The Minnesota Wild shocked the hockey world by buying out the contracts of Zach Parise and Ryan Suter on Tuesday, letting them go free and sign with new teams while this team is left with some massive dead cap hits for the foreseeable future.
Financials aside, another team that is going to send shockwaves through the NHL is the Seattle Kraken when they enter the league with their expansion draft coming on July 21. With teams hobbling around trying to determine who to protect from them and who leave out as bait, waiting for the Kraken to snatch them up, the Wild have a much easier job now that their two big contract players are gone.