{"id":97965,"date":"2025-12-28T19:54:25","date_gmt":"2025-12-28T19:54:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/97965\/"},"modified":"2025-12-28T19:54:25","modified_gmt":"2025-12-28T19:54:25","slug":"minnesota-wild-acquires-forward-boris-katchouk-from-the-tampa-bay-lightning-in-exchange-for-forward-mikey-milne","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/97965\/","title":{"rendered":"MINNESOTA WILD ACQUIRES FORWARD BORIS KATCHOUK FROM THE TAMPA BAY LIGHTNING IN EXCHANGE FOR FORWARD MIKEY MILNE"},"content":{"rendered":"

\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tDec 28, 2025<\/p>\n

SAINT PAUL, Minn.\u00a0\u2013 Minnesota Wild President of Hockey Operations and General Manager Bill Guerin today announced the National Hockey League (NHL) club has acquired forward\u00a0Boris Katchouk\u00a0(pronounced kuh-CHOOK)\u00a0from the Tampa Bay Lightning in exchange for forward\u00a0Michael Milne. Katchouk will report to the Iowa Wild in the American Hockey League (AHL).<\/p>\n

Katchouk, 27 (6\/18\/98), has skated in three games with Tampa Bay and has tallied 10 points (4-6=10) in 21 games with the Syracuse Crunch (AHL) this season. The 6-foot-2, 212-pound native of Vancouver, British Columbia, has collected 36 points (15-21=36) and 78 penalty minutes (PIM) in 179 career NHL games with Tampa Bay (2021-22, 2025-26), Chicago (2021-24) and Ottawa (2023-24). Katchouk has also recorded 154 points (64-90=154) and 161 PIM in 261 career AHL games with Syracuse (2018-22, 2024-25), Rockford (2023-24) and Wilkes-Barre\/Scranton (2024-25). He tallied six points (3-3=6) in seven games to help Canada win the gold medal at the 2018 IIHF World Junior Championship. Katchouk notched 202 points (101-101=202) and 154 PIM in 199 career games in four seasons with the Sault Ste. Marie Greyhounds (2014-18) in the Ontario Hockey League (OHL). He was originally selected by the Lightning in the second round (44th overall) of the 2016 NHL Draft.<\/p>\n

Milne, 23 (9\/21\/02), was selected by Minnesota in the third round (89th overall) of the 2022 NHL Draft. He tallied 65 points (32-33=65) and 104 PIM in 172 games with the Iowa Wild and appeared in one NHL game with Minnesota, making his NHL debut on Nov. 16, 2024 vs. Dallas.<\/p>\n

Iowa also has traded defenseman Wyatt Newpower to the Syracuse Crunch in return for future considerations.<\/p>\n

Newpower, 28 (12\/9\/97), has skated in 23 games with Iowa this season tallying three assists. The 6-foot-4, 210-pound blueliner has played in 235 career AHL games since 2020 with Iowa, the Bridgeport Islanders, Grand Rapids Griffins and Cleveland Monsters recording 11 goals and 36 assists.<\/p>\n

Iowa Wild hockey is presented by Kwik Star. For more information on Iowa Wild\u00a0hockey, please visit\u202fwww.iowawild.com<\/a>. Season tickets for 2026-27\u00a0are on sale now. Fans can\u00a0purchase\u00a0season tickets for the upcoming season at\u202fhttps:\/\/www.iowawild.com\/wild-365<\/a>.\u202f\u202f\u00a0<\/p>\n

Visit\u00a0http:\/\/www.iowawild.com\/pressbox<\/a>\u00a0for the latest news and information from the team including press releases, game notes, multimedia content, and daily statistics.\u202f\u202f\u202f\u00a0<\/p>\n

Iowa Wild home games are played at Casey\u2019s Center. Iowa Wild games are now streaming on AHLTV on\u00a0FloHockey. Fans can visit\u00a0FloHockey.tv<\/a>\u00a0now to create a free account, purchase subscriptions for the 2025-26 season, and watch all Iowa Wild games online.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Dec 28, 2025 SAINT PAUL, Minn.\u00a0\u2013 Minnesota Wild President of Hockey Operations and General Manager Bill Guerin today…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":97966,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[51738,30735,104,4386,5733,51737,634,51706,51739,5691,25429,110,135,137,136,17181],"class_list":["post-97965","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tampa","tag-ahl","tag-des-moines","tag-entertainment","tag-hockey","tag-iowa","tag-iowa-wild","tag-local","tag-minnesota-wild","tag-minor-league","tag-nhl","tag-professional","tag-sports","tag-tampa","tag-tampa-headlines","tag-tampa-news","tag-wild"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97965","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=97965"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97965\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/97966"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=97965"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=97965"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=97965"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}