{"id":626398,"date":"2026-03-02T07:53:15","date_gmt":"2026-03-02T07:53:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/626398\/"},"modified":"2026-03-02T07:53:15","modified_gmt":"2026-03-02T07:53:15","slug":"minnesota-wild-acquires-defenseman-roman-schmidt-from-the-philadelphia-flyers-in-exchange-for-forward-boris-katchouk-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/626398\/","title":{"rendered":"MINNESOTA WILD ACQUIRES DEFENSEMAN ROMAN SCHMIDT FROM THE PHILADELPHIA FLYERS IN EXCHANGE FOR FORWARD BORIS KATCHOUK"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tMar 1, 2026<\/p>\n<p paraeid=\"{c6888bb2-b03a-40fe-afb9-520c8424fdd3}{76}\" paraid=\"683492120\">SAINT PAUL, Minn.\u00a0&#8211;\u00a0Minnesota Wild President of Hockey Operations and General Manager Bill Guerin today announced the National Hockey League (NHL) club has\u00a0acquired\u00a0defenseman\u00a0Roman Schmidt\u00a0from the Philadelphia Flyers in exchange for forward\u00a0Boris\u00a0Katchouk\u00a0(pronounced\u00a0kuh-CHOOK). Schmidt will report to the Iowa Wild in the American Hockey League (AHL).\u00a0<\/p>\n<p lang=\"EN-US\" paraeid=\"{9d575b31-84dc-4941-b73b-38e295ef09f6}{138}\" paraid=\"134593122\" xml:lang=\"EN-US\">Schmidt, 23 (2\/27\/03), has recorded one assist and 60 penalty minutes (PIM) in 29 AHL games with the Syracuse Crunch and the Lehigh Valley Phantoms this season. The 6-foot-5, 225-pound native of Midland, Mich., owns seven points (3-4=7) and 139 PIM in 79 career AHL games in parts of three AHL seasons with Syracuse (2024-26) and Lehigh Valley (2025-26). Schmidt was originally selected by the Tampa Bay Lightning in the third round (96th overall) of the 2021 NHL Draft.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p lang=\"EN-US\" paraeid=\"{9d575b31-84dc-4941-b73b-38e295ef09f6}{152}\" paraid=\"1740085869\" xml:lang=\"EN-US\">Katchouk\u00a0tallied three points (1-2=3) in eight games with the Iowa Wild after Minnesota\u00a0acquired\u00a0him from the Tampa Bay Lightning in exchange for forward Michael Milne on Dec. 28, 2025.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p paraeid=\"{c6888bb2-b03a-40fe-afb9-520c8424fdd3}{236}\" paraid=\"344721219\">Iowa Wild hockey is presented by Kwik Star. For more information on Iowa Wild\u00a0hockey, visit\u202f<a href=\"http:\/\/www.iowawild.com\/\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">www.iowawild.com<\/a>. Season tickets for 2026-27\u00a0are on sale now. Fans can\u00a0purchase\u00a0season tickets for the upcoming season at\u202f<a href=\"https:\/\/www.iowawild.com\/wild-365\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/www.iowawild.com\/wild-365<\/a>.\u202f\u202f\u00a0<\/p>\n<p paraeid=\"{1dec30e9-eb08-4b21-a32c-6d249f0f5a3b}{27}\" paraid=\"1879771648\">Visit\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.iowawild.com\/pressbox\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/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<p paraeid=\"{1dec30e9-eb08-4b21-a32c-6d249f0f5a3b}{47}\" paraid=\"367722430\">Iowa Wild home games are played at Casey\u2019s Center. Iowa Wild games are now streaming on AHLTV on\u00a0FloHockey. Fans can visit\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/flosports.link\/4dyIrAx\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">FloHockey.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":"Mar 1, 2026 SAINT PAUL, Minn.\u00a0&#8211;\u00a0Minnesota Wild President of Hockey Operations and General Manager Bill Guerin today announced&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":626399,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[5132],"tags":[10490,5229,5987,171,8665,7776,3663,293,1448,2830,1311,205927,222565,62,67,586,132,5230,68,2969,9272],"class_list":["post-626398","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-philadelphia","tag-ahl","tag-america","tag-des-moines","tag-entertainment","tag-hockey","tag-iowa","tag-minnesota","tag-nhl","tag-pa","tag-pennsylvania","tag-philadelphia","tag-roman","tag-schmidt","tag-sports","tag-united-states","tag-united-states-of-america","tag-unitedstates","tag-unitedstatesofamerica","tag-us","tag-usa","tag-wild"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/116158503558142303","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/626398","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=626398"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/626398\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/626399"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=626398"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=626398"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=626398"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}