{"id":437039,"date":"2024-02-01T13:20:02","date_gmt":"2024-02-01T18:20:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/?p=437039"},"modified":"2024-02-01T13:14:50","modified_gmt":"2024-02-01T18:14:50","slug":"nhl-rumours-wild-and-islanders","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/2024\/02\/01\/nhl-rumours-wild-and-islanders\/","title":{"rendered":"NHL Rumours: Minnesota Wild and New York Islanders"},"content":{"rendered":"

The NHL All-Star Break is upon us and that means more NHL rumours to pass the time between games. There’s a lot of chatter about deals and one was made on Wednesday night. Some general manager are looking add pieces to make a run in the Stanley Cup Playoffs. However, other clubs are trying to lock down some of their future players to deals. Today’s NHL rumours focus on the Minnesota Wild<\/a> and New York Islanders.<\/a><\/p>\n

All NHL Rumours come from the original source and are subject to change.<\/p>\n

NHL Rumours<\/h2>\n

Minnesota Wild<\/h3>\n

Rumour: The Athletic’s Michael Russo and Joe Smith went over who will get a big-time contract<\/a> extension once the huge amount of dead money comes off the books.<\/em><\/p>\n

Analysis:<\/em> Minnesota is dealing with a load of dead money on their salary cap for this season and next. This is due to the Wild buying out both the Zach Parise<\/a> and Ryan Suter<\/a> contracts. Minnesota has over $14.7 million in dead money until the end of the next season. However, those two buyouts will be greatly reduced to nearly $1.7 million in the 2025-26 season. This means some Wild players looking to secure a big payday will hopefully “get the bag.”<\/p>\n

One of the players that Russo and Smith discussed which players will see the biggest benefit from the new-found money. Both agreed that rookie defenceman Brock Faber<\/a> is the most likely to get a big payday when that money is freed up. Faber has played well in his first full season with the Wild. He is making $925,000 for this season and the next. The former University of Minnesota product has 29 point this season and is considered a cornerstone of the Minnesota blueline group.<\/p>\n

Wild general manager Bill Guerin<\/a> does have to concern himself with an extension for Kirill Kaprizov<\/a> after the 2025-26 season. However, Faber’s contract comes first and he’ll likely get himself a hefty raise when his contract comes up.<\/p>\n

New York Islanders<\/h3>\n

Rumour: Arthur Staple of The Athletic listed some trade targets<\/a> for the Islanders at the upcoming March 8 trade deadline.<\/p>\n

Analysis: As of this time, the Isles look to still be buyers. However, that could change if the team continues to slump. Staple whip up a list of players that could come over in a deal. The Islanders sit four points from the second wild card spot in the Eastern Conference behind the Philadelphia Flyers.<\/p>\n

New York has already made a change behind the bench from Lane Lambert<\/a> to the fiery Patrick Roy<\/a>. However, the Isles are still on the outside looking in on the Stanley Cup Playoffs. The All-Star Break could be a time to reset for Roy and general manager Lou Lamoriello.However, time might be running out for the Islanders to insert themselves back into the post-season race.<\/p>\n

Common names like Noah Hanifin<\/a>, Jakob Chychrun<\/a>, Jason Zucker<\/a>, Morgan Frost<\/a> and Adam Henrique<\/a> are mentioned by Staple. However, there are other names that have to be mentioned as rumoured to be involved in deals. Players like Jack Roslovic<\/a>, Alexandaer Barbanov, Peyton Krebs<\/a>, Alexander Texier and Jonatan Berggren<\/a> were mentioned as trade targets.<\/p>\n

Roslovic has had a hard time finding his role with the Columbus Blue Jackets<\/a> and could find a new home with the Islanders. He’s a pending unrestricted free agent and likely won’t get more than the $4 million that he’s getting now. The 27-year-old could be useful because he plays multiple forward spots.<\/p>\n

Krebs, Frost and Berggren are also having troubles finding spots on their respective teams and could get a fresh start on Long Island. Roy is solid at developing young players and that might be the case if he wants to mold the Islanders in his own image<\/p>\n

Main photo by: Per Haljestam-USA TODAY Sports<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The NHL All-Star Break is upon us and that means more NHL rumours to pass the time between games. There’s a lot of chatter about deals and one was made on Wednesday night. Some general manager are looking add pieces to make a run in the Stanley Cup Playoffs. However, other clubs are trying to […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2352,"featured_media":434487,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"no","_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":[4547,30,17,4548,4321],"tags":[3175,5035,1106,363,5931,5861],"class_list":["post-437039","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-hockey","category-wild","category-islanders","category-nhl","category-rumours","tag-bill-guerin","tag-brock-faber","tag-jack-roslovic","tag-lou-lamoriello","tag-minnesota-wild-rumours","tag-new-york-islanders-rumours"],"modified_by":"Tommy Bennett","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/437039","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=437039"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/437039\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/434487"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=437039"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=437039"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=437039"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}