Wilderness Walks

Wilderness Walk: Oh my, we have a trade

Your daily dose of Wild news, along with other interesting stories from around the NHL.

By Thomas P. Williams@sludgewilliams Mar 25, 2021, 6:00am CDT

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Dallas Stars v Tampa Bay Lightning

That’s Wild

The Minnesota Wild have now won their 10th consecutive game at the Xcel Energy Center after keeping the Anaheim Ducks at bay with a 3-2 win on Wednesday. [Hockey Wilderness]
With a busy summer coming up, Kirill Kaprizov’s agent and Bill Guerin had a conversation on Wednesday to understand where they are at in regards to a contract extension. The Wild rookie is set to become an RFA in the offseason. [Hockey Wilderness]

Off the trail...

Less than three weeks until the April 12 trade deadline and we got our first trade of this weird time of year. The Tampa Bay Lightning are sending youngster Alexander Volkov to the Anaheim Ducks for a reported package of a prospect and pick.

Hearing Alexander Volkov going from TB to ANA, return will be late-round pick and a prospect.
— Elliotte Friedman (@FriedgeHNIC) March 25, 2021

The Tim Peel situation has the rest of the league talking about what will come now that this strategy done by the officials has been publicly exposed. [The Athletic]