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RE: Wild 2025-26 Season - 7/1/2026 4:52:40 PM

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Billy G must have really pissed off Zuccy to make him sign with LA for the minimum within minutes of free agency opening.....

You have to move on from guys eventually....39 year old winger. It is also the problem I have with Nick Foligno.

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RE: Wild 2025-26 Season - 7/1/2026 5:27:22 PM

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Billy G must have really pissed off Zuccy to make him sign with LA for the minimum within minutes of free agency opening.....

Word is that Zucs was absolutely furious that the Wild showed no interest.

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RE: Wild 2025-26 Season - 7/2/2026 10:14:25 AM

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Billy G must have really pissed off Zuccy to make him sign with LA for the minimum within minutes of free agency opening.....

Word is that Zucs was absolutely furious that the Wild showed no interest.

They don't like his game. He's not a fit here. My high school basketball game didn't like the way I played, so I could either sit on the bench or quit. I quit.

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RE: Wild 2025-26 Season - 7/2/2026 10:42:37 AM

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According to Russo and Smith the Wild want to get Kaprizov out of the east west game that he plays with Zuccarello. They want him to mesh with other players and transition more to a go to the net style game.

On the Larkin front, Yzerman is apparently only interested in a deal with the Wild that includes Boldy. Hopefully Billy politely told him to go f**k himself. IMO, Yzerman is trying to force Larkin to expand his list of teams. He wants a bidding war.

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RE: Wild 2025-26 Season - 7/2/2026 10:43:57 AM

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I'll miss Zucs in a lot of ways, but he DID have a tendency to embarrass us with unnecessary rogue dirty hits. He doesn't do us a whole lot of good when he's serving suspensions.

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RE: Wild 2025-26 Season - 7/2/2026 11:26:43 AM

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According to Russo and Smith the Wild want to get Kaprizov out of the east west game that he plays with Zuccarello. They want him to mesh with other players and transition more to a go to the net style game.

On the Larkin front, Yzerman is apparently only interested in a deal with the Wild that includes Boldy. Hopefully Billy politely told him to go f**k himself. IMO, Yzerman is trying to force Larkin to expand his list of teams. He wants a bidding war.

I don't mind letting a 39 year old Zuc go and making Kirill drop the E/W game they played together.
If it's Boldy or nothing Yzerman is going to be stuck with a disgruntled captain since everybody else is moving on with their teams. Billy G should be moving on soon too. I like the idea of going younger and giving some of the kids the chance they need. We may be surprised.....

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RE: Wild 2025-26 Season - 7/3/2026 4:09:10 AM

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Wow, we got super younger and then in an instant, older again 😳. I need to process this more before I have an opinion. Good/bad/ugly, this team will be different

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RE: Wild 2025-26 Season - 7/3/2026 6:48:16 AM

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Here is the updated depth chart per Russo at this time....

Offseason depth chart
Forwards
Kaprizov ($17 million) Hartman ($4 million) Shabanov ($1.6 million)
Coleman ($2.45 million) Eriksson Ek ($5.25 million) Boldy ($7 million)
Trenin ($3.5 million) McCarron ($3.33 million) Brink ($2.75 million)
M. Foligno ($4 million) Yurov ($972,500) N. Foligno ($900,000)
Sturm ($2 million)

Defensemen
Hughes ($7.85 millon) Faber ($8.5 million)
Brodin ($6 million) Spurgeon ($7.575 million)
Maatta ($3.5 million) Bogosian ($1.25 million)
Hunt (RFA)

Cap space
Cap charges: $99,430,833

Parise/Suter buyout charges: $1,666,666

Projected salary cap for 2026-27 season: $104 million

Projected salary-cap space: $2,902,501

Not much room for Larkin without moving some people first.

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RE: Wild 2025-26 Season - 7/3/2026 9:36:40 AM

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The forward depth chart makes no sense. Sharapov on the first line? It would make a lot more sense to move Yurov to wing and have Sturm center the 4th line.

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RE: Wild 2025-26 Season - 7/3/2026 10:49:05 AM

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The forward depth chart makes no sense. Sharapov on the first line? It would make a lot more sense to move Yurov to wing and have Sturm center the 4th line.

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Shabanov

Yeah, I get the impression Shabanov is there as a placeholder more than anything.
Or is that a dig at Kirill for playing hardball on his huge contract he now gets to play with a cheap youngster.

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RE: Wild 2025-26 Season - 7/4/2026 3:58:27 AM

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The forward depth chart makes no sense. Sharapov on the first line? It would make a lot more sense to move Yurov to wing and have Sturm center the 4th line.

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Shabanov

Yeah, I get the impression Shabanov is there as a placeholder more than anything.
Or is that a dig at Kirill for playing hardball on his huge contract he now gets to play with a cheap youngster.

Any one who was ineffective in playoffs specifically Avs is gone. Tarasenko Middleton Zuccarello Johansson. Guessing Sturm and Hartman next.

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RE: Wild 2025-26 Season - 7/7/2026 10:19:08 PM

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It was previously reported that Larkin had expanded his acceptable trade destinations to six teams. That turned out to be false. Larkin isn't moving off of his initial three team list of the Wild, Florida and Vegas. Yzerman has pushed him to expand, but he won't do it. That leaves Minnesota as the only viable option. Florida and Vegas have moved on.

Hockey analysts everywhere consider Yzerman beyond delusional in asking for Boldy. The consensus is that Boldy is better, younger and cheaper. If the Wild were to put Boldy on the market, they do a lot better than Larkin. He is basically the biggest bargain superstar in the NHL.

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RE: Wild 2025-26 Season - 7/10/2026 7:13:52 AM

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SHIT! Larkin added Dallas to his trade list.

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RE: Wild 2025-26 Season - 7/10/2026 9:51:29 AM

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Dallas can't afford to resign Robertson right now and he just filed for arbitration. Maybe they will trade Robertson for Larkin.....

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RE: Wild 2025-26 Season - 7/10/2026 11:15:01 AM

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Dallas can't afford to resign Robertson right now and he just filed for arbitration. Maybe they will trade Robertson for Larkin.....

That is the speculation. It sounds like the Wild would need to build a package around Erickson Ek to get a deal done.

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RE: Wild 2025-26 Season - 7/10/2026 11:27:32 AM

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Dallas can't afford to resign Robertson right now and he just filed for arbitration. Maybe they will trade Robertson for Larkin.....

That is the speculation. It sounds like the Wild would need to build a package around Erickson Ek to get a deal done.

To me Ek for Larkin is a wash and I would just as soon move on with what we have for now.

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RE: Wild 2025-26 Season - 7/10/2026 3:17:11 PM

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Yzerman has lost his f***ing mind. As soon as Dallas was added to the list, he demanded Wyatt Johnston in return for Larkin. Dude is just being a total prick now.

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RE: Wild 2025-26 Season - 7/10/2026 4:14:33 PM

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Yzerman has lost his f***ing mind. As soon as Dallas was added to the list, he demanded Wyatt Johnston in return for Larkin. Dude is just being a total prick now.

Yeah, I feel for Larkin because he is stuck on a losing team with a prick GM. I hope it goes into the season when all the other teams are all set with their rosters and he has a captain with a bad attitude that he can't move. Maybe then he will be open to a reasonable offer.

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RE: Wild 2025-26 Season - 7/10/2026 8:33:32 PM

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Yzerman has lost his f***ing mind. As soon as Dallas was added to the list, he demanded Wyatt Johnston in return for Larkin. Dude is just being a total prick now.

Yeah, I feel for Larkin because he is stuck on a losing team with a prick GM. I hope it goes into the season when all the other teams are all set with their rosters and he has a captain with a bad attitude that he can't move. Maybe then he will be open to a reasonable offer.

I think Yzerman is trying to get Larkin to expand his trade list. Yzerman makes ridiculous demands and when teams tell him to pound sand, he goes back to Larkin and says he can't get a fair offer and he needs Larkin to give him more options. Of course, now that Yzerman has rejected a Robertson deal, he may just be playing a game and has no intention of trading Larkin.

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RE: Wild 2025-26 Season - 7/14/2026 2:33:20 PM

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Yzerman has lost his f***ing mind. As soon as Dallas was added to the list, he demanded Wyatt Johnston in return for Larkin. Dude is just being a total prick now.

Yeah, I feel for Larkin because he is stuck on a losing team with a prick GM. I hope it goes into the season when all the other teams are all set with their rosters and he has a captain with a bad attitude that he can't move. Maybe then he will be open to a reasonable offer.

I think Yzerman is trying to get Larkin to expand his trade list. Yzerman makes ridiculous demands and when teams tell him to pound sand, he goes back to Larkin and says he can't get a fair offer and he needs Larkin to give him more options. Of course, now that Yzerman has rejected a Robertson deal, he may just be playing a game and has no intention of trading Larkin.

Yzerman is going to hurt his team by being so stubborn. A Stramel, Yurov and a 1st is a really good trade for Larkin.......yet here we are.

Larkin has such a nice contract for us to get other pieces.....

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RE: Wild 2025-26 Season - 7/15/2026 8:54:20 AM

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Yzerman is going to hurt his team by being so stubborn.

Not anymore

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RE: Wild 2025-26 Season - 7/15/2026 9:05:54 AM

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Snippets from the Athletic:

The Detroit Red Wings have announced Steve Yzerman is transitioning from his role as executive vice president and general manager and will continue to serve the organization as senior adviser to governor and CEO Chris Ilitch. The Red Wings will now begin searching for a new head of hockey operations.

Yzerman will remain in his current role until his successor is named.

It will be interesting to see if this changes anything with Larkin....

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RE: Wild 2025-26 Season - 7/15/2026 9:14:31 AM

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I think Yzerman was determined to transform the Wimgs to a win now status. I think ownership realized how delusional that was. The new gm will no doubt leverage Larkin to acquire young players and picks to jump start the rebuild. In any event, Yzerman is probably a figurehead at this point and Larkin won't be going anywhere in the short term.

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RE: Wild 2025-26 Season - 7/15/2026 11:33:26 AM

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K guys, leaning an y'all for this one. I was in Europe for a couple weeks when this went down. Trying to read up on him, but, TBH.....had never heard of him before. What do we know about Shabanov? Just listened to JHS pod and they have him projecting as the top line RW.

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RE: Wild 2025-26 Season - 7/15/2026 11:50:09 AM

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All I know about him is what Russo wrote when they signed him. He kind of sounds like a smaller skilled player much like Brink.
I'm guessing they are bringing him in hoping Kirill can create some chemistry with his countryman since he no longer has Zuccy....

ST. PAUL, MINN. — Not long after acquiring winger Blake Coleman and defenseman Olli Maatta on Thursday, the Minnesota Wild signed young forward Maxim Shabanov to a one-year, $1.6 million contract. Shabanov, 25, wasn’t tendered a qualifying offer Monday by the Islanders.

The Wild envision him as a top-nine forward. While he’s smaller at 5-foot-9, he’s known to be skilled and a player who can support good players in a scoring position. He’s quick and shifty, can make plays and will get to the hard areas. A left-handed shot, Shabanov can skate on both wings.

In 2025-26, his first NHL season, he registered five goals and 18 points in 44 games.

Shabanov spent four seasons (2021 to ’25) with Traktor Chelyabinsk in the KHL, scoring 67 goals and 150 points over 207 games. He ranked third in the KHL in regular-season scoring in 2024-25 with 67 points across 65 games and earned a spot on the KHL’s first All-Star Team. He scored 20 points in 21 games during the 2025 KHL playoffs, leading the league with 10 goals. He played in the 2025 and 2024 KHL All-Star Games.

He will be supported in Minnesota by fellow Russian natives Kirill Kaprizov, Yakov Trenin and Danila Yurov.

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