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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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LOS ANGELES, CA - APRIL 05: Charlie Coyle #3 of the Minnesota Wild shoots the puck as Dustin Brown #23 of the Los Angeles Kings defends during the third period of a game at Staples Center on April 5, 2018 in Los Angeles, California. (Photo by Sean M. Haffey/Getty Images)
LOS ANGELES, CA – APRIL 05: Charlie Coyle #3 of the Minnesota Wild shoots the puck as Dustin Brown #23 of the Los Angeles Kings defends during the third period of a game at Staples Center on April 5, 2018 in Los Angeles, California. (Photo by Sean M. Haffey/Getty Images) /

Surely It Will: Charlie Coyle

I’ve touched on this before; I’m all for trading Charlie Coyle whilst he offers value to the Minnesota Wild. But equally, I can see that he offers the team some degree of good value to keep, if he can up his game just a small amount.

Charlie sits behind Mikael Granlund and Jason Zucker on the depth chart, which is fair enough. He carries a cap hit of $3.2 million and is only on contract until the 2019-20 season. Another perfect case of being a slightly longer-term rental; let’s call it a rental plus one.

He’s reasonably big-bodied and produces well enough to be useful to a contending team should it come to that. You can expect about 40 points out of him across the course of a full season and generally effective play.

Why he seems the most likely candidate for a trade simply put is because of his value.

He isn’t going to do too much damage to a team’s cap hit, is still young enough at 26 to offer a reasonable guarantee not to suddenly tail off stats-wise next season.

That and he generally meets the needs of a lot of teams seeking a bit of depth that isn’t over the hill.

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The higher price to pay over some other depth options may prevent any such deal happening, but I still rate it very much the most probable. Unlike a lot of his counterparts, there’s not a no-trade clause limiting the scope of where he can be moved.

The most interesting part here would be where he gets moved and whether it’s prior to the Trade Deadline or not. I guess that depends how the Minnesota Wild perform this year.

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