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    I’m following along on the Athletic because I’ve heard better announcing at a high school hockey game. Where did TNT find their announcers?
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    Well if you want to take it a step further, what was the rush signing all those players before the off season? It’s not like they’re up and coming rookies or high end scorers. They’re all pluggers, with the exception of Zuccarello. With the crappy seasons they’ve all had, he probably could have gotten them for half of what he paid.
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    Yes, but the Wild have played one more game than the Blues and Kraken, and two more than the Flames...
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    Maybe he didn't underpay. Could be more of the devil you know. But I agree with you. Not sure why it was necessary to give out all those NTC's to average players...
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    He had to give them the NTC/NMC because of the dead cap space. He couldn’t give them as much as other teams salary-wise. So to compensate he throws in the NTC/NMC. Maybe if the team had stayed healthy all season long they might have made the Playoffs. Hard to say what they would have done. I don’t think they would have done much. But that’s just me.
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    Maybe. But a 2026 draft pick won’t get paid until at least 2026. He got what he could get. The biggest issue was that he shot himself in the foot with the pre season extensions. No reason whatsoever to do that. If Foligno et al had a bad season, he could have traded them. Or signed them for a lot less than he did. But now, he got a bunch of mid round picks for some role players. And we get the same team next season, only a year older.
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    They probably weren't going to sign him or be able to afford to sign him for what he was going to get in arbitration...
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    Dewey #2 gone... Connor Dewar to TO for a 2026 4th round pick...
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    Nic Petan traded for Turner Elson...whee
  10. IllaZilla
    Looks like a conditional late round draft pick. 2026 6th rounder and LW Luke Toporowski.
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    There goes Dewey #1...for a 2026 3rd rounder...
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    Speaking of NMC's/NTC's, the Athletic just had an interesting article on the explosion of NMC's/NTC's being given to players over the last decade or so. Basically it came down to all the expansion and the salary cap. More opportunities for players to move around. So if a GM wanted to keep a guy, it wasn't just a matter of money anymore.
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    You forgot the obligatory NTC…
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    That’s the problem with the Wild. They are stuck in a cycle of mediocrity because they refuse to rebuild. They keep shooting for the Playoffs every season and then get bounced in the first round, which results in a lower teen pick. They then draft a nice player. Not a great player, but a nice player. So they have a team filled with nice players. Nice players don’t win Stanley Cups.
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    Apparently he was scratched at the last minute for a “personal reason”.
  16. IllaZilla
    Yeah, this is so a playoff team.
  17. IllaZilla
    Is it televised? Has to be better than this game…
  18. IllaZilla
    Nice to see Shaw get a point.
  19. IllaZilla
    My God, is this team even going to show up tonight?
  20. IllaZilla
    I just can’t even with this team…
  21. IllaZilla
    Yeah, let’s unload Dewar but hang onto flotsam and jetsam like Johansson and Gadreau…
  22. IllaZilla
    According to Michael Russo of the Athletic the Wild have just signed Marat Khusnutdinov to a two year entry level deal…
  23. IllaZilla
    Way to give up a goal with 26 seconds to go in the intermission…
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    They are looking at Shaw or Khusnutdinov, potentially Yurov as replacements. Shaw I can see, but the other two? I thought Khusnutdinov and Yurov were supposed to be more top six guys.
  25. IllaZilla
    Latest rumors out there are the Wild are possibly moving on from Dewey 1 and Dewey 2. Duhaime is a UFA and the Wild haven’t even begun negotiating with him. Dewar is an RFA with arbitration rights, so depending on if he takes the Wild to arbitration he may be moved. And since Guerin made all the logical trading pieces unmovable with NMC’s, that’s pretty much what he has to “improve” the team at the trade deadline.
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