{"id":510445,"date":"2026-03-03T00:07:07","date_gmt":"2026-03-03T00:07:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/510445\/"},"modified":"2026-03-03T00:07:07","modified_gmt":"2026-03-03T00:07:07","slug":"wild-have-some-big-decisions-to-make-ahead-of-nhl-trade-deadline","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/510445\/","title":{"rendered":"Wild have some big decisions to make ahead of NHL Trade Deadline"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg\">With just a few days before March 6th\u2019s trade deadline, NHL teams should have already decided if they\u2019re going to be buyers or sellers. For the team\u2019s on the buying side of the ledger, they\u2019ll now have to decide just how aggressive they want to be to improve their roster for the stretch run.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg\">Take the <a class=\"text-secondary underline underline-offset-2\" hreflang=\"en\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dailyfaceoff.com\/teams\/minnesota-wild\/line-combinations\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Minnesota Wild<\/a>, for example. They\u2019ve already made the biggest splash of the season by acquiring star defenseman Quinn Hughes from the <a class=\"text-secondary underline underline-offset-2\" href=\"https:\/\/canucksarmy.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" hreflang=\"en\">Vancouver Canucks<\/a>, but they still feel a bit below the <a class=\"text-secondary underline underline-offset-2\" hreflang=\"en\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dailyfaceoff.com\/teams\/colorado-avalanche\/line-combinations\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Colorado Avalanche<\/a> and <a class=\"text-secondary underline underline-offset-2\" hreflang=\"en\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dailyfaceoff.com\/teams\/dallas-stars\/line-combinations\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Dallas Stars<\/a> as true Stanley Cup contenders. How many more future assets are they willing to give up to level the playing field with their Central Division rivals?<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg\">On Monday\u2019s episode of\u00a0<a class=\"text-secondary underline underline-offset-2\" href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=6IlrWGRVHPE\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" hreflang=\"en\">Daily Faceoff LIVE<\/a>,\u00a0hosts Tyler Yaremchuk and former NHL goaltender Carter Hutton discussed the decisions on the table for the Wild ahead of the trade deadline.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg\">Tyler\u00a0Yaremchuk:\u00a0I think about those three teams in the Central, not that any of them are particularly desperate. I think Minnesota needs another forward, though, if they\u2019re going to try to go toe to toe with either Dallas or Colorado in a playoff series.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg\">Carter\u00a0Hutton:\u00a0Oh yeah. And that\u2019s the thing, it\u2019s wild, I think it\u2019s a great point that DB (Dennis Bernstein) brought up when he was talking about the <a class=\"text-secondary underline underline-offset-2\" hreflang=\"en\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dailyfaceoff.com\/teams\/los-angeles-kings\/line-combinations\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Los Angeles Kings<\/a> and how bad they\u2019ve been; they\u2019re still in the hunt because of the way the division has been. Now the opposite end of the scale is, you look at Minnesota, how well they\u2019ve played, and the situation in the Central Division where it\u2019s just star-studded. <\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg\">So what do you do? Someone in the chat was asking about it and I stated my opinion. If they were to move (Jesper) Wallstedt and get a return, I could see that happening in the sense of the lack of playoff success in the history of the Minnesota Wild. It\u2019s just not there. At what point does making the playoffs and losing every single first round just get old and they need to make a push? I feel like they are in a good situation, but man it is scary when you say you\u2019re going to have to play Dallas and Colorado.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg\">You can catch the full discussion and the rest of Monday\u2019s episode here\u2026<\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"With just a few days before March 6th\u2019s trade deadline, NHL teams should have already decided if they\u2019re&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":510446,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[433],"tags":[49,48,448,82],"class_list":["post-510445","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nhl","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-nhl","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/510445","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=510445"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/510445\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/510446"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=510445"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=510445"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=510445"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}