The Philadelphia Flyers need a young, top-six center more than any hockey team in the world needs anything. Could they find their answer on the Minnesota Wild?
Marco Rossi’s name has come up in trade rumors for at least the last 12 months. The 23-year-old Wild center has been seen as on his way out of Minnesota since the team doesn’t view him as the high-end center that they want to build a lineup around that he could have been when drafted ninth overall back at the 2020 NHL Entry Draft.
Now a pending restricted free agent, the Wild need to make their decision to either push him around and get him to sign short-term contracts that walk him to free agency, consistently having this push-and-pull between a player that deserves a larger role and a team that doesn’t think he’s anything more than a bottom-six center if not playing with Kirill Kaprizov.