Wild Never Received Adequate Trade Offers for Rossi – Wilderness Walk

Marco Rossi’s name will not leave the rumor mill but it sure seems like his perceived value around the league is lower than expected. According to Sportsnet’s Elliotte Friedman on Monday’s episode of 32 Thoughts: The Podcast, the Minnesota Wild never received any trade offers for the 23-year-old center that was deemed adequate enough to give him up.

General manager Bill Guerin has been adamant that he will not make the Wild’s current roster worse in a Rossi trade, and if teams are solely offering trade packages full of draft picks or far-off prospects, that doesn’t fit the bill.

Now the Wild are most likely going to re-sign Rossi to some sort of medium-term deal that takes him through the rest of his team control at a reasonable price. And then, of course, he’ll go off and score triple digits just because.

• Did the Vancouver Canucks help out the Wild by keeping Brock Boeser? [Hockey Wilderness]
• The Wild signed a whole lot of players for organizational depth. One of those is long-time NHLer Nicolas Aube-Kubel, who has jumped around from team to team for a while now, but always finds himself playing a couple games in the NHL most seasons. [The Hockey News]

Off the trail…

• Can another shuffle of some forwards fix the Edmonton Oilers? They might not be addressing what is actually the problem. [Sportsnet]
• The Pittsburgh Penguins seem to be the only team in the whole NHL that is fine with selling off roster players for future assets. Right now, they’re reportedly taking calls on Bryan Rust and Rickard Rakell. [TheScore]

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