Minnesota Wild Interactive Depth Chart

by elisebutler on Apr 28, 2011 9:30 AM CDT

Now that the Minnesota Wild's 2010-2011 campaign has ended, it's time to move forward. Wild management has some decisions that need to be made. To help you better and more easily understand where the Wild currently stands, I built this interactive depth chart for you to play with. In it, you'll find a classic depth chart along with players' ages, salaries for this year and next and a link to a YouTube highlight (command+click to open).

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This is all kinds of awesome Elise!

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by JSLandry on Apr 28, 2011 9:34 AM CDT reply actions

This is amazing.

Well done, Elise.

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by BReynolds on Apr 28, 2011 9:40 AM CDT reply actions

By the way...

Added to featured posts. Will be there through the free agency period, at least. You will be able to find this post on the front page all summer.

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by BReynolds on Apr 28, 2011 9:42 AM CDT up reply actions

This is pretty cool.

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by Kevin Sellathamby on Apr 28, 2011 9:47 AM CDT reply actions

This is totally wicked!

Great Job!!!

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by FightingWild on Apr 28, 2011 9:58 AM CDT reply actions

This is awesome.

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by ShelBel on Apr 28, 2011 10:04 AM CDT reply actions 1 recs

Amazing!

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by JMarushin on Apr 28, 2011 10:27 AM CDT reply actions

no idea how you did that...

but awesomeness

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by danccchan on Apr 28, 2011 10:34 AM CDT reply actions

this is sweet! great work!

by Gotty033 on Apr 28, 2011 11:29 AM CDT reply actions

Great work... and a great tool.

Thank you, Elise.

by Krotz the Wall on Apr 28, 2011 12:56 PM CDT reply actions

Thanks, everyone

It’s all done in Flash with some coding. The most time consuming part was compiling all the information and deciding on design.

If anyone else has anything they want to see put into a Flash/interactive piece, let me know and I’ll see what I can do!

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by elisebutler on Apr 28, 2011 2:22 PM CDT reply actions

Awesome post but do the Wild even have any money…

by Eric B on Apr 29, 2011 3:09 PM CDT reply actions

Depending on what they do with Barker

& Granlund, Lehtonen, Madden, Sheppard. The Wild will have between 9 million & 12 Million unless they make some significant trades this summer.

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by FightingWild on Apr 29, 2011 3:20 PM CDT up reply actions

As I understand it...

Granlund needs to learn North American hockey before he steps in, so I wouldn’t count on seeing his contract actually effect the Wild’s cap. He would do well in Houston, playing along side Fontaine perhaps?
Lehtonen is being pursued by European teams, and may have a mega offer in the KHL. Can the Wild compete with that?
Madden is probably on his way out. The Wild do have 3 centers as of now in Koivu, Brodziak, and Cullen, and I would figure that Colton Gillies gets a crack at the 4th center position.
Sheppard is the enigma. The Wild can re-sign him on a two-way deal and place him in Houston since he hasn’t played enough games in the past two years.

Barker…well…he can go to hell.

by JDesthubert on Apr 29, 2011 4:32 PM CDT up reply actions

I think The Wild will sign Shep

to that two way contract & give him his last chance. There really is no risk in the contract. If he doesn’t perform he goes to Houston & if he does then the WIld benefit from taking the risk. In all honesty Lehtonen will probably sign with the WIld as it is the Premier League in the world. The KHL likes to throw money around but also have those beat downs like we saw a few months ago where Skoula got beat to a pulp. If he doesn’t not much lost there either. Wellman & Gillies will likely be with the team from the start. As for the rest its just to darn early.

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by FightingWild on May 2, 2011 8:56 AM CDT up reply actions