Wild N Ready

Now with Free Angency and The Draft out of the way the Wild seem to be ready to take that next step. they didnt have an off season as busy as they would have liked but they were still pretty busy.
GM Mckenzie stated that "We got the guy we wanted" regaurding Drafting young Centermen Sonny Milano. "We feel he can and will be one of the best shooters in the league and someone you can make a conerstone of your team"

In:

Centermen:

Shawn Horcoff, Scott Gomez,  and Kris Newbury

Wingers:

Jean-Francois Jacques, Jed Ortmeyer, Kevin Westgarth, Guillaume Desbiens and Cam Janssen

Defencemen:

Adam Pardy, Vincent LoVerde and Hubert Labrie

Goaltenders:

Ray Emery

Out:

Brian Elliott, Ben Lovejoy, Scott Hannan, Peter Mannino, Ryan Carter, Steve Begin, Chris VandeVelde, Brad Staubitz, Jim Vandermeer, Phil DeSimone, Scott Campbell, Hunter Tremblay, Sean Zimmerman, James Martin and Atte Engren

with the loss of Brian Elliott, the Wild aquired Ray Emery to be the main back-up, but we expect Joni Ortio to be making a strong push for back-up. GM Mckenzie said he is still looking for another top 4-6 Dman and he feels hes just 1 piece away for a strong push into the playoffs. the wild also Matched the offer sheet from Carolina for Cody Franson.

Michael Russo - Minnesota StarTribune