{"id":686593,"date":"2026-05-22T04:29:08","date_gmt":"2026-05-22T04:29:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/686593\/"},"modified":"2026-05-22T04:29:08","modified_gmt":"2026-05-22T04:29:08","slug":"snapshots-foligno-legault-khl-pro-hockey-rumors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/686593\/","title":{"rendered":"Snapshots: Foligno, Legault, KHL \u2013 Pro Hockey Rumors"},"content":{"rendered":"

Minnesota Wild winger Marcus Foligno<\/a> told The Athletic\u2019s Joe Smith<\/a> that it would be a \u201cno-brainer\u201d for his brother Nick Foligno<\/a> to accept a contract extension with the Wild, assuming he is offered one. Foligno said his brother \u201cshowed he\u2019s a great role piece for this team\u201d and \u201clikes the makeup of the team\u201d moving forward. With that said, the elder Foligno brother, Nick, said he needs to discuss all of the possibilities for his playing future with his family, and that he will need to be \u201c100 percent committed\u201d if he\u2019s to continue his career with the Wild.<\/p>\n

Foligno, 38, was a solid contributor in Minnesota after they acquired him in a mid-season trade with the Chicago Blackhawks. Though he didn\u2019t produce much offense (just four points in 17 regular-season games) he did hold his own on the penalty kill and as a physical presence in the bottom-six. Smith also noted that Foligno, a former captain for two NHL teams, became a \u201crespected voice in the room\u201d for the Wild. If he\u2019s to return in Minnesota, Foligno would likely need to take a steep pay cut from the $4.5MM he earned on his last deal. When Foligno signed that contract, he was in the midst of a season that he finished with 17 goals and 37 points in 74 games. It\u2019s unlikely Foligno will reach that level of scoring again, but he still has something to offer NHL teams, and his brother hopes he\u2019ll do so in Minnesota.<\/p>\n

Other notes from around the hockey world:<\/p>\n

The AHL announced today<\/a> that Chicago Wolves defenseman Charles-Alexis Legault<\/a> has been suspended one playoff game \u201cas a consequence of a boarding incident\u201d in his team\u2019s playoff game against the Grand Rapids Griffins on May 19. A video of the play in question can be found here<\/a>. Legault appeared to drive Griffins forward Amadeus Lombardi<\/a> into the boards, after Lombardi had already tripped and was sliding on the ice. Grand Rapids ended up winning the game in overtime thanks to a goal from first-round pick Michael Brandsegg-Nygard<\/a>, but the Wolves retain a 2-1 series advantage. They can end Grand Rapids\u2019 season tonight in game four, but will have to do so without Legault.
\nLokomotiv Yaroslavl of the KHL won their second consecutive Gagarin Cup title earlier today, defeating Ak Bars Kazan in six games. Lokomotiv\u2019s roster is full of players who are either NHL prospects or who were formerly members of NHL organizations. Their leading scorer, Alexander Radulov<\/a>, was a lethal scoring winger for the Dallas Stars from 2017 to 2022. Winger Richard P\u00e1nik<\/a> is a former NHL 20-goal scorer. The team also has a few NHL prospects, including 2020 Edmonton Oilers draft pick Maxim Berezkin<\/a>, and Nashville Predators 2024 first-rounder Yegor Surin<\/a>. Per Alex Daugherty of The Tennessean<\/a>, Predators Assistant GM and Director of Scouting Jeff Kealty said Surin \u201cwould be an NHL player\u201d right now if not for his contract with Lokomotiv, which runs through 2026-27.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Minnesota Wild winger Marcus Foligno told The Athletic\u2019s Joe Smith that it would be a \u201cno-brainer\u201d for his…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":686594,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[556],"tags":[3063,64,63,330775,981,7524,575,136438,31034,85],"class_list":["post-686593","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nhl","tag-ahl","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-charles-alexis-legault","tag-khl","tag-minnesota-wild","tag-nhl","tag-nick-foligno","tag-snapshots","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/686593","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=686593"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/686593\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/686594"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=686593"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=686593"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=686593"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}