{"id":42436,"date":"2025-07-06T03:58:09","date_gmt":"2025-07-06T03:58:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/42436\/"},"modified":"2025-07-06T03:58:09","modified_gmt":"2025-07-06T03:58:09","slug":"minnesota-wild-leader-bill-guerin-remains-set-up-to-strike","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/42436\/","title":{"rendered":"Minnesota Wild leader Bill Guerin remains set up to strike"},"content":{"rendered":"

We all had our shopping lists ready as July 1 approached. NHL free agency was near, and Wild President of Hockey Operations Bill Guerin was finally in position to show how he can shape a roster with no salary limitations.<\/p>\n

It has been difficult to assess Guerin\u2019s tenure with the Wild since July 2021, when he bought out the contracts of Zach Parise and Ryan Suter.<\/a> He has shown he has a good eye for talent, is presiding over one of the top five farm systems in the league and has one of the top 15 players in hockey in Kirill Kaprizov.<\/p>\n

But Guerin has operated with a $14.7 million cap hit for nearly four seasons because of the Parise and Suter contracts.<\/p>\n

Now, the shackles are off. <\/p>\n

So who did the Wild sign? Sam Bennett? Brock Nelson? Brock Boeser? <\/p>\n

As it turned out, they were victims of bad timing. <\/p>\n

The market was impacted by the league increasing the salary cap. The extra space allowed teams to retain their own players. Bennett, Boeser, Nelson and others re-signed with their old teams. Boeser, from Burnsville, was expected to be on the move but stayed in Vancouver for seven years with an average annual value of $7.3 million. <\/p>\n

As much as salaries, contract length was more than Guerin was comfortable with. He was ready to shop, but the shelves were bare. And the cap is set to rise another $8.5 million before 2026-27 and another $9.5 million before 2027-28.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"We all had our shopping lists ready as July 1 approached. NHL free agency was near, and Wild…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":42437,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[42],"tags":[293,62,67,132,68],"class_list":{"0":"post-42436","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nhl","8":"tag-nhl","9":"tag-sports","10":"tag-united-states","11":"tag-unitedstates","12":"tag-us"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42436","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=42436"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42436\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/42437"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=42436"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=42436"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=42436"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}