A lot of the focus on the Minnesota Wild and GM, Bill Guerin focuses on the dual buyouts from last Summer and the cap constraints the Wild will experience over the next three seasons.

There is of course truth to the dead money on the Wild cap, however, one could argue that many teams have bad contracts on their books handcuffing them. Just take a look at some of the recent deals where assets were sent to other teams along with draft picks just to free up cap space to sign a player. Sean Monahan just went to the Canadiens along with a first round pick for future considerations, earlier in the Summer Max Paccioretti was dealt from Vegas to Carolina for the aforementioned, future considerations just to allow the Golden Knights to become cap compliant.

Bill Guerin has made the Wild a more competitive team and his prospect pool is going to provide the solution for the Wild to dictate how they work their way through the next three seasons on their own terms.

I have heard several hockey experts talk about Marco Rossi and how he should have made the Wild roster last season blah blah blah. There was absolutely no way that Rossi was going to play more than 9 games last season as his ELC has been pushed back to begin this season allowing the Wild to have him with a cap hit of $863K over the next three seasons which not so coincidently coincides with the end of the major cap penalty of the buyouts.

Former Minnesota Golden Gopher captain, Sammy Walker, was signed to a 2-yr entry level contract to add some more organizational depth. The former 2017, 7th round draft choice of Tampa became a free agent on Monday and was promptly signed.

We have talked about the Wild prospect pool and their top ranking before. Some of those future Wild players are participating in the WJC and giving the Wild faithful some high hopes for their team to be competitive for years to come.

We know not all of those prospects can play for the Wild, and Bill Guerin will have to cash in some of those chips at some point.

That time will come as the season wears on and the team deficiencies start to become reality. At that point Guerin will be operating from a position of strength not of desperation.

Guerin does not make rash decisions with his roster or the salary cap, period!

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