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Minnesota Wild: Players Most Likely To Be Traded This Season

By Luke Ryan

DENVER, CO - APRIL 06: Mikael Granlund #64 of the Minnesota Wild celebrates a goal against the Colorado Avalanche with his bench at the Pepsi Center on April 6, 2017 in Denver, Colorado. The Wild defeated the Avalanche 4-3. (Photo by Michael Martin/NHLI via Getty Images)
DENVER, CO - APRIL 06: Mikael Granlund #64 of the Minnesota Wild celebrates a goal against the Colorado Avalanche with his bench at the Pepsi Center on April 6, 2017 in Denver, Colorado. The Wild defeated the Avalanche 4-3. (Photo by Michael Martin/NHLI via Getty Images) /
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ST. PAUL, MN - FEBRUARY 2: Charlie Coyle #3 of the Minnesota Wild watches from the bench against the Vegas Golden Knights during the game at the Xcel Energy Center on February 2, 2018 in St. Paul, Minnesota. (Photo by Bruce Kluckhohn/NHLI via Getty Images)
ST. PAUL, MN – FEBRUARY 2: Charlie Coyle #3 of the Minnesota Wild watches from the bench against the Vegas Golden Knights during the game at the Xcel Energy Center on February 2, 2018 in St. Paul, Minnesota. (Photo by Bruce Kluckhohn/NHLI via Getty Images) /

The Minnesota Wild are in a constant state of flux. The burden of Zach Parise and Ryan Suter‘s long-term deals makes building a solid core a constant challenge. There’s every chance players have to leave for the team to grow.

Now, of course if the team are outside of playoff contention as we near the Trade Deadline, this all becomes very much the expected course of action.

Typically, any team that knows it’s not making the playoffs will sacrifice some solid depth players, that second-line guy on an expiring deal or the veteran that deserves a chance at the Cup.

You trade away players in return for draft picks or generally B-grade prospects. The sorts of guys that will help you in the future but offer no additional benefit in the short-term. The exact opposite of those professionals you give up on.

For the Minnesota Wild, they meet all of those needs so depending how the season ahead actually pans out, these are the guys I see as most likely not to be hanging around too long.

Then again, we could once again defy the expectations of everyone and make yet another run at the play-offs. Who knows; maybe this year is the year we make it out of the first round and actually inflict some damage on our rivals?

Either way, I figure we look at the obvious candidates to find themselves on the trade block at some point this year for the Minnesota Wild.

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