{"id":484759,"date":"2026-03-06T13:46:10","date_gmt":"2026-03-06T18:46:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/?p=484759"},"modified":"2026-03-06T13:46:10","modified_gmt":"2026-03-06T18:46:10","slug":"the-minnesota-wild-wanted-to-shed-some-salary-and-florida-answered","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/2026\/03\/06\/the-minnesota-wild-wanted-to-shed-some-salary-and-florida-answered\/","title":{"rendered":"The Minnesota Wild Wanted to Shed Some Salary and Florida Answered"},"content":{"rendered":"

With the trades the Minnesota Wild<\/a> have been making, it got to the point where it was too much, apparently. Therefore, general manager Bill Guerin<\/a> found a willing trade partner for their depth forward Vinnie Hinostroza<\/a>. The team that answered the phone was, none other than Florida Panther general manager Bill Zito. In return, the Wild receive future considerations. Let’s discuss.<\/p>\n

The Minnesota Wild Trade Vinnie Hinostroza to the Florida Panthers<\/h2>\n

The Minnesota Wild have been loading up, especially recently. Today alone they have added Nick Foligno<\/a> and Bobby Brink<\/a>, in solid moves as upgrades. Also, they had received a boost from Florida, in acquiring defenceman<\/a> Jeff Petry<\/a> just yesterday. Needless to say, they are basically all-in for a 2026 Stanley Cup Playoff run.<\/p>\n

However, with all those additions, it made sense that players would become expendable. Even though it isn’t a lot, trading Hinostroza frees up his salary of $775K, as well as the roster spot. As of print, according to PuckPedia<\/a>, the Wild have a little over $6 million in deadline salary cap space available. Therefore, they could very well have one target in mind. Given the price tag specifically, Brayden Schenn<\/a> might come to mind, and conveniently plays in the same time zone. But that is mere conjecture.<\/p>\n

Looking at Hinostroza, Statistically Speaking<\/h3>\n

For Hinostroza, he is almost 32, and has played 460 career NHL games. His career best season came back in 2018-19, as a member of the…Arizona Coyotes. That year he had career highs in goals (16), assists (23), points (39), games (72), ice time (15:16), you name it really. This marks his return to Florida in fact, as he appeared in nine games for them in 2020-21. He has played for seven NHL teams in total. Furthermore, this season he has three goals and seven assists for ten points in 48 games played, in a little over 10 minutes of ice time.<\/p>\n

Main Photo Credit: Rob Gray-Imagn Images<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

With the trades the Minnesota Wild have been making, it got to the point where it was too much, apparently. Therefore, general manager Bill Guerin found a willing trade partner for their depth forward Vinnie Hinostroza. The team that answered the phone was, none other than Florida Panther general manager Bill Zito. In return, the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4222,"featured_media":464018,"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":[30,6,4547,34,4548],"tags":[8278,2763],"class_list":["post-484759","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-wild","category-panthers","category-hockey","category-news","category-nhl","tag-2026-nhl-trade-deadline","tag-vinnie-hinostroza"],"modified_by":"Levi Pike, Editor","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/484759","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\/4222"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=484759"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/484759\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":484764,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/484759\/revisions\/484764"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/464018"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=484759"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=484759"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=484759"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}