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Dan Wallace
Joined: 09.15.2005

Jan 19 @ 12:00 PM ET
Dan Wallace: Hockey Day MN, Wild New Faces
MnGump
Minnesota Wild
Location: Columbus, MN
Joined: 06.21.2012

Jan 19 @ 2:00 PM ET
Yep, that all sounds great Dan and i don't disagree, but throughout the dawn of pro sports history, very rarely does a coach in any sport sit his highest paid players for the greater good. Saying it is one thing easily accomplished, actually doing it is a completely different story.

That being said, for obvious reasons Koivu should have been busted down to the 3rd or even 4th lines at the start of this season. His bread and butter as a center man at the face off dot has even regressed as of late. It's time he is slotted where pretty much any other team in the league would put him. Captain C or not...

Staal needs MUCH LESS ice time and should not be in the top 2 lines.

Happy Hockey Day Minnesota!!!!!!
mnMild
Location: duluth is not a cool city, MN
Joined: 01.08.2018

Jan 20 @ 9:25 AM ET
Points for the new guys, so that was nice (more than nino has in carolina...). In all seriousness, ill miss nino. It was really too bad to see him have such a tough couple years with the skills he has. i hope he has a good career with the canes.
gypsypunk01
Minnesota Wild
Location: Stillwater, MN
Joined: 01.28.2014

Jan 20 @ 10:06 PM ET
Dan Wallace: Hockey Day MN, Wild New Faces
- Dan Wallace

Nino is just gonna blow up isn't he....
bikeguy99
New Jersey Devils
Joined: 09.05.2017

Jan 21 @ 2:00 AM ET
Nino is just gonna blow up isn't he....
- gypsypunk01


He was already a quality scorer with a far higher ceiling, so yes. This is a trade you will regret. Not as bad as the Burns trade, but still bad.
MnGump
Minnesota Wild
Location: Columbus, MN
Joined: 06.21.2012

Jan 21 @ 11:12 AM ET
He was already a quality scorer with a far higher ceiling, so yes. This is a trade you will regret. Not as bad as the Burns trade, but still bad.
- bikeguy99

K, He's been terrible since the beginning of last season. so how long does one wait on a player that was drafted high in the first and that has shown signs of greatness but has completely sucked for the last 2 seasons?

He was given every opportunity to snap out of whatever funk he's been in and he just never did anything to show that he was on his way back.

Secondly, Nino will NEVER be even in the same universe as being comparable to Brent Burns. Apples/Oranges.

Fenton needed to start turning over a roster of supposed "quality scorers" that just hasn't been able to do anything beyond the first round of the playoffs.

Any Wild fan will tell you that Nino is one that had to go. Did they get back an equal player? Probably not, but clearing cap space and ridding the roster of a player that has promise but was not living up to that promise is a simple start to the betterment of said roster.

I honestly hope he turns his career around in another market, but he clearly was never going to do it here and that is why the Wild will never regret moving him.