Minnesota Wild Sign Greg Zanon

by nathaneide on Jul 1, 2009 5:42 PM CDT in News

The Minnesota Wild made their first splash into the free agent pool by signing Nashville Predator defenseman Greg Zanon for three years at $5.2 million.

Greg Zanon

Nashville Predators

Height: 5-11

Weight: 211

Born: Jun 05, 1980

	GP	G	A	P	+/-	PIM	PPG	SHG	GWG	GTG	SOG	PCT
2008 - Greg Zanon	82	4	7	11	8	38	0	0	1	0	54	7.4

Zanon, a product of the University of Nebraska - Omaha, is well acquainted with Todd Richards, having played for Richards as a member of the Milwaukee Admirals of the AHL.

Zanon is considered to be a defense-first blue liner. He has a knack for playing solid positional defense, taking the body and blocking shots, something the Wild sorely need.

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They have to be joking…Some no-name defenseman and everyone else in our division is getting even more better than us,while we are getting worse,and we sucked before today,I say boycott this team until they do something…This has to be a joke!

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by Xx Gophers Eat Badgers xX on Jul 1, 2009 6:12 PM CDT reply actions

Yeah, how dare we not massively overpay for a “star” before we plug some of our minor holes!

CALM DOWN. This is just the beginning.

There's no use being pessimistic, it won't work anyway.

by Mike in MN on Jul 1, 2009 7:26 PM CDT reply actions

The Wild need to make a better splash than this. Not impressed with this move.

by Eric B on Jul 1, 2009 8:09 PM CDT reply actions

Not that horrible...

It signed one guy, and if the new coach and GM want to be more aggressive and offensive we need a guy that can actually play D. Our current D (not Burns) get burned and depend on defensive forwards because they suck. I think its a solid move. Especially when you have 3 D that are free agents that don’t deserve any money. I’d sign only Bergeron and for less than what he signed for before.

by Candawg21 on Jul 1, 2009 8:23 PM CDT reply actions

Its a great move...

If we were a solid team with say maybe 3 players that could score more than 15 goals a year,I would say this is a solid move,but the thing is,is that we have NO OFFENSE,and I am glad he is good at blocking shots because he will be BUSY,not much talent left to go get,we will finish with less than 80 points this year unless they do something…

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by Xx Gophers Eat Badgers xX on Jul 1, 2009 8:28 PM CDT reply actions

It's all good guys

Zanon is a good, solid pick up. Excellent shot blocker. Had him in my roto league last year. Good, solid d-man. Good guy to put out with Zids to let Zids play some O.

So… Burnsy out there with Schultz, Johnsson out there with ? and Zanon out there with Zids. Should be three really good pairings.

PP could be Zids and Johnsson, PK Shultz and Zanon… I like it.

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by BReynolds on Jul 1, 2009 9:16 PM CDT reply actions