Center Mikko Koivu will be with the Minnesota Wild for the foreseeable future.
On Monday, Wild general manager Chuck Fletcher announced the team reached a two-year contract extension with Koivu that will pay him $11 million through the 2019-20 season. The announcement noted he will make $6 million in 2018-19 and $5 million in 2019-20.
He was previously set to hit the open market as an unrestricted free agent following the 2017-18 campaign.
Koivu has developed into one of the faces of the franchise and has been with the Wild his entire career since they selected him with the No.