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stfrank -> RE: Wild 2025 post mortem, off-season and draft (6/4/2025 8:12:36 AM)
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Going by the numbers Rossi is in the range of a Boldy type contract. Here is a snippet from the Russo article on the Athletic.
The Wild’s five-year contract offer to Rossi for a $5 million average annual value is in line with Florida Panthers center Anton Lundell and Washington Capitals center Dylan Strome.
On a seven- or eight-year term, Rossi is likely looking at comparables like the Ottawa Senators’ Dylan Cozens ($7.1 million), Buffalo Sabres’ Josh Norris ($7.95 million) and the Wild’s Matt Boldy, who signed a seven-year, $49 million extension in January 2023.
Rossi, the ninth pick in the 2020 draft, followed a 21-goal, 40-point season during his first full year in the NHL with a career-high 24 goals and 60 points last season. At five-on-five, he was on the ice for 56 goals compared to Boldy’s 50 and 43 goals against compared to Boldy’s 44.
Overall, Boldy followed a 15-goal, 39-point rookie year in just 47 games with 31 goals and 63 points in 2022-23, 29 goals and 69 points in 2023-24 and 27 goals and 73 points last season. Boldy averaged nearly two minutes more per game the past two years than Rossi.
Calgary Flames winger Matthew Coronato, 22, recently signed a seven-year contract worth $6.5 million a year. It’s hard to imagine Rossi agreeing to any long-term deal for less than that, but so far the Wild have shown no appetite to go anywhere in the vicinity.
On a three-year term, Evolving-Hockey estimates Rossi is a $5.262 million player this summer. On a five-year term, the site has him at $6.067 million. On a seven-year term, it’s at $6.688 million.
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