Minnesota Wild: Following the Nick Leddy trade tree

The amount of trades sprouting from what was seemingly a simple swap back when Nick Leddy was still playing University hockey continues to grow. The Minnesota Wild will no doubt hope this is the end of the tree now though.

Most recently in terms of the trade tree, Jason Pominville (remember him from earlier) went back to the club he started this little cycle with; the Buffalo Sabres. They also picked up Marco Scandella and the Wild’s 2018 fourth round pick, which they used on a guy by the name of Linus Lindstrand Cronholm.

Jason Pominville is ageing, so this wasn’t a bad move in the Wild’s books, likewise Marco Scandella, whilst a good defenseman was blocking the progress of guys like Nick Seeler, who has shown himself to be more than able since stepping into the line-up.

Minnesota saw a return on that trade of Tyler Ennis, Marcus Foligno and Buffalo’s third round pick, which they used on Jack McBain.

Tyler Ennis never quite found his game with the Minnesota Wild last year and it was (hopefully) without regret that they bought him out in the summer. Ennis has landed with the Toronto Maple Leafs and has barely missed a game this year, though doesn’t appear to have found more to his game than he showed in Minnesota.

Foligno plays a big role on the fourth line; he lays hits and plays penalty-kill minutes. Perfect usage for the guy really.

At this point, it’d seem the trade tree is done; that is unless Marcus Foligno or Jack McBain are eventually dealt, in which case, the tree will continue to grow!

This isn’t even looking at whether the players end up traded again once they arrived at their new teams away from Minnesota. We could be here forever if we carried on down that path. Needless to say, trades can get quite muddled after a while.

All this because the Minnesota Wild drafted Nick Leddy but then decided to go for a win-now option instead!