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Wild 2025 post mortem, off-season and draft - 5/2/2025 9:52:38 AM   
TJSweens


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Status: offline 		Looks like one of the first things will be to sign Danila Yurov to his entry level contract. His KHL team released him now that he refused to sign an extension with them. The KHL has goofy politics. If a player is on the last year of a deal, he gets playing time cut drastically untill he signs an extension. Refuse to sign, they get released.

This should help the Wild. Yurov is, hands down, their top forward prospect and a center to boot. He is supposed to possess Kaprizov level talent only bigger and faster.

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RE: Wild 2025 post mortem, off-season and draft - 5/5/2025 10:50:20 AM   
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Status: offline 		Rossi is gone this summer. According to multiple league sources, the Wild offered Rossi a five-year, $25 million contract earlier this winter that was not accepted. That pissed off Guerin and sealed Rossi's fate with the Wild in my opinion. We are in dire need of good centers and giving up on Rossi could very well come back to bite us.
It is going to be a very interesting summer.


This makes a lot of sense and I hadn't heard it. I was scratching my head why a 60 point C was on the 4th line. If true, it was dumb as hell but would give an explanation.
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RE: Wild 2025 post mortem, off-season and draft - 5/5/2025 10:52:40 AM   
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Looks like one of the first things will be to sign Danila Yurov to his entry level contract. His KHL team released him now that he refused to sign an extension with them. The KHL has goofy politics. If a player is on the last year of a deal, he gets playing time cut drastically untill he signs an extension. Refuse to sign, they get released.

This should help the Wild. Yurov is, hands down, their top forward prospect and a center to boot. He is supposed to possess Kaprizov level talent only bigger and faster.


If you watch his highlights he's got incredible shot accuracy.
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RE: Wild 2025 post mortem, off-season and draft - 5/5/2025 11:06:31 AM   
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If you watch his highlights he's got incredible shot accuracy.


That reminds me of something that has always bugged me - why are there SO MANY shots that go wide or over the top of the net? These guys take shots at that net 100 times in every practice, and have been playing for years. When they wind up to shoot - how can so many go wide?

I'm not talking about the ones that get tipped or blocked, of course. But geez. Kind of like Shaq who couldn't hit a free throw to save his life. How is it possible that a pro basketball player could miss so many free throws?

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RE: Wild 2025 post mortem, off-season and draft - 5/5/2025 1:44:49 PM   
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RE: Wild 2025 post mortem, off-season and draft - 5/5/2025 2:53:02 PM   
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Rossi is gone this summer. According to multiple league sources, the Wild offered Rossi a five-year, $25 million contract earlier this winter that was not accepted. That pissed off Guerin and sealed Rossi's fate with the Wild in my opinion. We are in dire need of good centers and giving up on Rossi could very well come back to bite us.
It is going to be a very interesting summer.


This makes a lot of sense and I hadn't heard it. I was scratching my head why a 60 point C was on the 4th line. If true, it was dumb as hell but would give an explanation.


Seems petty to me (by Guerin) but apparently Rossi thinks that contract isn't enough.....if you can't get equal value in a trade do a 1 or 2 year contract....

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RE: Wild 2025 post mortem, off-season and draft - 5/8/2025 8:21:29 AM   
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Status: offline 		It's pretty clear that Guerin and Hines don't value Rossi. Kicking him to the 4th line, so Freddy could center the second line was criminally stupid. Getting pissy because Rossi turned down a below market value contract is further evidence of Guerin's poor temperment for the job. Obviously Rossi knows what a 23 year old center with his production is worth even if Billy doesn't.

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RE: Wild 2025 post mortem, off-season and draft - 5/8/2025 9:22:13 AM   
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Status: online 		Do we actually know what Guerin's reaction to Rossi turning down the contract was? It sounds like people are just assuming that was his reaction, but the reality is that negotiations over contracts happen ALL THE TIME. Guerin knows that. Until I hear it from him, I'm going to assume it's a non-issue and has nothing to do with how the coaches use Rossi on the ice.

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RE: Wild 2025 post mortem, off-season and draft - 5/8/2025 11:15:05 AM   
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Status: offline 		According to Russo, Guerin was not happy about it and Russo doesn't know if that offer is on the table anymore. I think Rossi's use in the playoffs conclusively shows how little the powers that be value him. He was relegated to the 4th line and the third fewest minutes among forwards, while Gaudreau and Nyquist played terrible hockey above him. Nyquist with one screw up, cost them a 3rd win series lead and possibly the series. Meanwhile their second best center and 3rd best offensive player got put between a couple of journeyman grinders and still scored a couple of goals.

Russo puts the odds of a trade at 75 to 80%. That apparently would suit Rossi just fine.

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RE: Wild 2025 post mortem, off-season and draft - 5/8/2025 12:32:38 PM   
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Status: offline 		I like Gaudreau more than a lot of people but his use during the playoffs was insane. Same with ZB. Can't wait to watch that dude for a full year NEXT year. He had no business stepping straight outta college and QB'ing the #1 PP unit. Don't get me wrong. He absolutely should have gotten minutes. Just not there.
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RE: Wild 2025 post mortem, off-season and draft - 5/8/2025 12:56:05 PM   
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Status: offline 		Agreed. My issues with Freddy have more to do with how he is used than with the player he is. Gaudreau is a savvy veteran role player who is well suited to a bottom 6 checking role. As I said earlier, using Freddy as a second line center in the playoffs was criminally stupid.

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RE: Wild 2025 post mortem, off-season and draft - 5/8/2025 5:55:36 PM   
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a savvy veteran role player who is well suited to a bottom 6 checking role.



That defines all of our forwards but the first line of Boldy-Ek-Kirill. Until Guerin acquires some more top line talent we can't be considerer playoff contenders. I can see it now, our big free agent signing will be a 33 yr old Brock Nelson looking for his last big contract. I like Nelson, but if that is all Guerin does we are spinning our wheels. We need a major upgrade of talent in forward group.
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RE: Wild 2025 post mortem, off-season and draft - 5/9/2025 9:46:47 AM   
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Status: offline 		What kills me is the way we seem to go about it. Our philosophy, if you will. BG seems to take that approach of "we can't score goals so lets focus on getting young, stud defensemen". Lets try a different approach like getting young, stud forwards
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RE: Wild 2025 post mortem, off-season and draft - 5/9/2025 4:40:00 PM   
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Status: offline 		One name I'm not interested in is Brock Nelson. No more big money, no move clause contracts to players in their mid 30's whose best years are behind them.

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