Post by Minnesota Wild on Jun 1, 2023 16:35:34 GMT -6
Welcome to the eighth edition of Wild Times
The Wild have lived the darkest timeline in the 2022-2023 season. Not only did they finish 2nd worst in the entire league, their parent NHL club the Columbus Blue Jackets got bumped from the 2nd overall pick to the 3rd overall pick. So not only was it an abysmal on ice performance, where the Wild saw many of their depth players get shipped at the deadline, they lost the rights to draft at 2nd overall, thus making their future plans even more grim.
"You get kicked in the nuts during the season, just to get stone cold stunnered at the draft lottery. What a devastating blow, and what an awful awful season. There isn't really any way I can spin the narrative or pick many positives. I'm shocked ownership is keeping me around after this catastrophic season." A very candid Wolf quipped after realizing he is in fact the owner and cannot be fired. "Oh, right, I always wondered why I sign my own cheques" he said, as media personnel echoed confused looks amongst the room.
"You can tell I am not in a good headspace with this team right now." Wolf admitted.
The Minnesota Wild have a pivotal off-season ahead of them. Many questions plagued the team and it is almost impossible to find where the answers could be. The Minnesota Wild shipped a lot of their support players and depth at the deadline, and the issue most fans are concerned with, where are the reinforcements? The Wild do have high quality resources, and do boast a competitive core in the likes of MacKinnon, Kopitar, Kuznetsov, Josi, and Seider, with Oettinger in net, but unfortuntely teams can't operate as a one line team. "I see the issues that plague us, I know I have my work cut out for us. Every insider, I read the reports, are saying we need to rebuild - and I get it, we would be a great candidate to, especially with the amount of draft picks we have."
The Wild are stuck in the middle of a pendulum swing. They have the draft capital and youth to go out and acquire reinforcements to help the current core and get the team back to a competitive state, OR they could also strip the current core down and trade their top players to add a further plethora of young assets and draft picks.
"It's a very precarious position we are in, and honestly, right now, myself and the rest of the front office staff are in the war room every day determining the best course of action to go, and as of right now.... I honestly couldn't tell you. But you will find out what the Wild are up to come the 2023 PFHL Entry Draft."
"You get kicked in the nuts during the season, just to get stone cold stunnered at the draft lottery. What a devastating blow, and what an awful awful season. There isn't really any way I can spin the narrative or pick many positives. I'm shocked ownership is keeping me around after this catastrophic season." A very candid Wolf quipped after realizing he is in fact the owner and cannot be fired. "Oh, right, I always wondered why I sign my own cheques" he said, as media personnel echoed confused looks amongst the room.
"You can tell I am not in a good headspace with this team right now." Wolf admitted.
The Minnesota Wild have a pivotal off-season ahead of them. Many questions plagued the team and it is almost impossible to find where the answers could be. The Minnesota Wild shipped a lot of their support players and depth at the deadline, and the issue most fans are concerned with, where are the reinforcements? The Wild do have high quality resources, and do boast a competitive core in the likes of MacKinnon, Kopitar, Kuznetsov, Josi, and Seider, with Oettinger in net, but unfortuntely teams can't operate as a one line team. "I see the issues that plague us, I know I have my work cut out for us. Every insider, I read the reports, are saying we need to rebuild - and I get it, we would be a great candidate to, especially with the amount of draft picks we have."
The Wild are stuck in the middle of a pendulum swing. They have the draft capital and youth to go out and acquire reinforcements to help the current core and get the team back to a competitive state, OR they could also strip the current core down and trade their top players to add a further plethora of young assets and draft picks.
"It's a very precarious position we are in, and honestly, right now, myself and the rest of the front office staff are in the war room every day determining the best course of action to go, and as of right now.... I honestly couldn't tell you. But you will find out what the Wild are up to come the 2023 PFHL Entry Draft."
