With Josh Harding being diagnosed with MS and Backstrom being an injury machine, Parise and Suter are not going to improve the Wild at all.  That team is going to stink yet again, this time due to lack of funds.  Koivu, Heatley, Suter and Parise take up 42.5% of a $70M cap.

How dumb.

 

Good thing Fletcher didn't let a GM like Chiarelli take top goalie prospect Khudobin out of Houston. I've heard Minnestoa is quite happy with his starts they've given Anton up in the NHL.

Wow, I completely forgot about that, San.

That team is toast.  Their personnel decisions are amazing.  2000 was the first draft they participated in.  Mikko Koivu and Cal Clutterbuck are the only two "good" players they have right now that they drafted.  By good I mean contributing and not currently or often injured.

I would never be a fan of that team.

I disagree. I think Granlund & Dumba will help the team a lot & look for the Wild to go after a Theodore type when/if the season starts. I think they make the play-offs. 

From what I've read he is still practicing and plans on playing. Not sure how that works..But Backstrom has had a couple of injuries the past years, very good goalie, but they'll certainly need to have soemone ready, not sure with a new CBA if Theodore will be an option.

In response to kelvana33's comment:

Yea the SOB never seems to be injured against the Bruins though. He's what I call the Lundqvist of the West. I can only remember the B's beating the Wild once with him in there & I don't think he started the game. 

Last two years:

2012/03/27 Missed 2 games (lower body injury). 2012/03/24 Lower body injury, day-to-day. 2012/03/19 Missed 7 games (lower body injury). 2012/03/02 Lower body injury, sidelined indefinitely. 2012/01/17 Missed 2 games (flu). 2012/01/12 Flu, day-to-day. 2011/12/08 Missed 2 games (groin). 2011/12/04 Groin, day-to-day. 2011/11/25 Missed 1 game (personal reasons). 2011/11/23 Personal reasons, day-to-day. 2011/01/16 Missed 4 games (hip injury). 2011/01/08 Hip injury, injured reserve. 2010/03/21 Missed 5 games (groin). 2010/03/12 Groin, day-to-day. 2010/02/10 Missed 5 games (back injury).

 

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Matt Hackett, nephew of former NHLer Jeff, was a very good goalie in the OHL. When injuries occur go to the depth chart and see how they perform at the top level. 

All is not lost for them.

I think Minnesota also comes off as the most outrageous hypocrite in the current CBA negotiations.  How anyone involved with that organization can complain about player salaries and profit margins, with a straight face, is beyond me.

Charlie Coyle, Granlund, and Hackett should help.