{"id":134923,"date":"2023-01-24T07:45:17","date_gmt":"2023-01-24T12:45:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/?p=134923"},"modified":"2023-01-23T20:13:05","modified_gmt":"2023-01-24T01:13:05","slug":"nhl-rumours-minnesota-wild-matt-dumba-trade","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/2023\/01\/24\/nhl-rumours-minnesota-wild-matt-dumba-trade\/","title":{"rendered":"NHL Rumours: Minnesota Wild Blueliner on Trade Wishlist"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s time for another round of NHL rumours. Things are getting hot and heavy and many names are speculated on as we roll toward the March 3 trade deadline. Defencemen are a hot commodity and the Minnesota Wild need cap space. This means a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hockey-reference.com\/players\/d\/dumbama01.html?utm_medium=linker&amp;utm_source=lastwordonsports.com&amp;utm_campaign=2023-01-23_hr\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Matt Dumba<\/a> trade is very possible. Today&#8217;s NHL rumours looks at the veteran blueliner&#8217;s future after the deadline.<\/p>\n<p>All NHL rumours come from the original source and are subject to change.<\/p>\n<h2>NHL Rumours<\/h2>\n<h3>Matt Dumba Trade Could Happen<\/h3>\n<p>Rumour: The Athletic&#8217;s Michael Russo said that Wild general manager <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hockey-reference.com\/players\/g\/gueribi01.html?utm_medium=linker&amp;utm_source=lastwordonsports.com&amp;utm_campaign=2023-01-23_hr\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Bill Guerin<\/a> alerted Duma and his representation about a possible trade. Dumba carries a $6 million cap hit that wraps up at the end of this season. The Regina, Saskatchewan native told the media that Guerin has been upfront about a possible trade as the deadline draws closer.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Why the Wild are healthy scratching Matt Dumba and what it could mean for his trade value <\/p>\n<p>via <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/TheAthletic?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">@TheAthletic<\/a>  <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/4FPg1jJgBP\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">https:\/\/t.co\/4FPg1jJgBP<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Michael Russo (@RussoHockey) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/RussoHockey\/status\/1616487904976437255?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">January 20, 2023<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Dumba has four goals and eight assists in 43 games this season. However, he&#8217;s been a healthy scratch for the first time since April 2016. This might mean that his time in the Twin Cities could be drawing to an end. He recorded a career-high 14 goals and 36 assists in the 2017-18 season.<\/p>\n<h3>What a Matt Dumba Trade Means<\/h3>\n<p>The writing seems to be on the wall for Dumba after Matthew Boldy <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/2023\/01\/16\/minnesota-wild-sign-matt-boldy\/\" target=\"_self\">signed a long-term contract extension<\/a> with the team. Minnesota has plenty of <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/2021\/07\/13\/minnesota-wild-buyouts-parise-suter\/\" target=\"_self\">dead cap space<\/a> next season after buying out <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hockey-reference.com\/players\/p\/parisza01.html?utm_medium=linker&amp;utm_source=lastwordonsports.com&amp;utm_campaign=2023-01-23_hr\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Zach Parise<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hockey-reference.com\/players\/s\/suterry01.html?utm_medium=linker&amp;utm_source=lastwordonsports.com&amp;utm_campaign=2023-01-23_hr\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Ryan Suter<\/a>. The Wild will have over $14.7 million in cap space gone for the next two seasons after the dual buyouts. Space will be at a premium and there&#8217;s no room for Dumba.<\/p>\n<p>However, the Wild don&#8217;t want to lose out on an asset for nothing. They&#8217;ll try to send the 28-year-old to another team, but have to sweeten the pot a little bit. Defencemen like Dumba could be useful to a contender and he could be an intriguing rental. The healthy scratches could scare teams away because of Dumba&#8217;s struggles or it could renew interest because the Wild may part with the defenceman quicker.<\/p>\n<p><a id=\"F8AV-kV4QxF5NMP_ZIthYg\" class=\"gie-single\" style=\"color: #a7a7a7; text-decoration: none; font-weight: normal !important; border: none; display: inline-block;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.gettyimages.com\/detail\/1246401025\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Embed from Getty Images<\/a><script>window.gie=window.gie||function(c){(gie.q=gie.q||[]).push(c)};gie(function(){gie.widgets.load({id:'F8AV-kV4QxF5NMP_ZIthYg',sig:'6-ChMCR5jTzu1AXz8hW6PdgjF65jQ_h9Sfc5SO86LlA=',w:'594px',h:'411px',items:'1246401025',caption: true ,tld:'com',is360: false })});<\/script><script src='\/\/embed-cdn.gettyimages.com\/widgets.js' charset='utf-8' async><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s time for another round of NHL rumours. Things are getting hot and heavy and many names are speculated on as we roll toward the March 3 trade deadline. Defencemen are a hot commodity and the Minnesota Wild need cap space. This means a Matt Dumba trade is very possible. Today&#8217;s NHL rumours looks at [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2352,"featured_media":134924,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","sfio_featured_image":false,"sfio_embed_code":"","_ef_editorial_meta_date_first-draft-date":"","_ef_editorial_meta_paragraph_assignment":"","_ef_editorial_meta_checkbox_needs-photo":"","_ef_editorial_meta_number_word-count":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[4321,4547,30,4548],"tags":[2722,5931,965],"class_list":["post-134923","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-rumours","category-hockey","category-wild","category-nhl","tag-matt-dumba","tag-minnesota-wild-rumours","tag-nhl-trade-deadline"],"modified_by":"Alex Metzger, Editor","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/134923","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2352"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=134923"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/134923\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/134924"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=134923"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=134923"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=134923"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}