{"id":102327,"date":"2025-08-22T17:32:07","date_gmt":"2025-08-22T17:32:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/102327\/"},"modified":"2025-08-22T17:32:07","modified_gmt":"2025-08-22T17:32:07","slug":"source-wild-re-sign-marco-rossi-to-3-year-15m-deal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/102327\/","title":{"rendered":"Source: Wild re-sign Marco Rossi to 3-year, $15M deal"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Greg WyshynskiAug 22, 2025, 12:48 PM ET<\/p>\n

Close<\/a>Greg Wyshynski is ESPN’s senior NHL writer.<\/p>\n

The Minnesota Wild<\/a> have re-signed restricted free agent Marco Rossi<\/a> to a 3-year, $15 million contract, an NHL source tells ESPN, ending months of speculation about the center’s immediate future with the team.<\/p>\n

The contract carries a salary cap hit of $5 million. Rossi, 23, was coming off his entry-level deal, having been drafted ninth overall by the Wild in 2020.<\/p>\n

Rossi is coming off his best NHL season with 24 goals and 36 assists in 82 games. His 60 points marked a 20-point improvement over 2023-24, when Rossi finished sixth in the NHL rookie of the year voting.<\/p>\n

Rossi was second on the Wild in points last season to Matt Boldy<\/a> (73) and third in goals behind Boldy (27) and Kirill Kaprizov<\/a> (25). But the young center’s future with Minnesota remained murky as he hit restricted free agency this summer.<\/p>\n

Rossi’s name was mentioned in trade rumors around last season’s deadline and into the offseason, as the Wild reportedly weren’t sold on making a long-term commitment to him at the salary Rossi was seeking.<\/p>\n

Rossi didn’t have much leverage as an RFA. Minnesota GM Bill Guerin said he would match any offer sheet that Rossi signed. While extending negotiations into training camp was a possibility, the sides instead agreed to a three-year bridge deal for the free agent.<\/p>\n

The Wild finished fourth in the Central Division last season with 97 points, losing in six games to the Vegas Golden Knights<\/a> in the first round of the Western Conference playoffs.<\/p>\n

Up next for Guerin, who is also the GM of the U.S. men’s Olympic hockey team for 2026: trying to extend Kaprizov, his 28-year-old star winger, who is entering the last year of his contract in Minnesota.<\/p>\n

The Athletic was first to report the details of Rossi’s contract.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Greg WyshynskiAug 22, 2025, 12:48 PM ET CloseGreg Wyshynski is ESPN’s senior NHL writer. The Minnesota Wild have…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":102328,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[66],"tags":[385,99],"class_list":["post-102327","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nhl","tag-nhl","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/102327","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=102327"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/102327\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/102328"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=102327"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=102327"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=102327"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}