WILD HOCKEY!

[OnAFly]

Just saw the replay of his SO goal. That was a pretty sick move.

[knoppers]

foster a wild again, zids to new jersey.

[Bran32]

From NHL.com

The New Jersey Devils gave their blue line a boost on Friday by acquiring veteran defenseman Marek Zidlicky from the Minnesota Wild for three players and draft picks after Zidlicky waived his no-trade clause.

The Wild will receive defenseman Kurtis Foster, forwards Nick Palmieri and Stephane Veilleux, as well as a second-round pick in 2012 that the Devils previously acquired from Washington and a conditional third-round pick in the 2013 NHL Draft. The Wild will get that pick if the Devils make the Eastern Conference Finals this spring and Zidlicky plays in 75 percent of New Jersey's games in the first two rounds.

[Bran32]

Now just Zanon and Schultz to go and I'll be happy!!!!

[schmitty3]

Now just Zanon and Schultz to go and I'll be happy!!!!

Agreed. Schultz has been terrible this year. He spends way too much time in the box, and just isn't as good defensively as they hype him on fsn. Zanon i'm on the edge about. He makes some good physical plays at times and I love him, and then he makes those defensive gaffs and I hate him. Definitely wouldn't be hugely upset if he went.

[bbfenatic]

Nice job CF, great trade IMO. 3 for 1 plus a pick. Not going to make them a playoff team this year but more decent players fighting for playing time will help in the near future. Hope he is not done making deals, trade Harding for a big forward who can muck it up in front of the net and chip in a few.

[OnAFly]

Finally we have a defenseman who can get shots through! Foster has a cannon of a shot, though he did make some mistakes defensively when he was here.

[archerystud]

Currently it looks like the Wild will have $21M open going into next year. Maybe CF can get another big FA for the top lines next year!!!

[OnAFly]

Year after next Backs, Cullen and I think PMB are off. That's a ton of space, though we will have to think about signing a few of our rookies then too.

OK, just checked it on capgeek. We have almost 40M in space in two years. That's nuts! We could go after some legitimate top end FAs. Wow, it's been a while since we could say that!!!

BTW - Todd McLellan (SJ Coach, former Houston Aeros Coach) just collapsed behind the bench. Hopefully he's alright.

[JimBuck]

Good game last night. After we went down 2-0 I was pretty close to turning it off and chalking up another loss. I like seeing Foster back in a Wild uniform again. Hopefully he can use that heavy slapper more often. On the same note, Heatley needs to stop with the massive windup on his slap shot. He can't hit the net worth a dump lately.

How is Todd McLellan doing? I hope he's alright. They seemed to shy away from going into detail about anything regarding his collapse.

[scsavre]

Anyone else just see shulz get petaled fr tom gilbert? I like it. Gilbert makes .5 more

[archerystud]

Edmonton reporting that Nick Schultz and Tom Gilbert have been traded.

[archerystud]

Guess Scavre beat me to it!

[Bear55]

Wild just traded Nick Schultz for Tom Gilbert, didn't see that coming. I'm still trying to form on opinion on this move but we are getting better offensively and maybe giving up a little in the D zone. Interesting move for sure, Schultz has been here forever.

[Bear55]

Guess Scavre beat me to it!

You guys are fast, I just checked the thread and started typing.

[Bear55]

I am hearing Zanon might be gone too.

[bbfenatic]

Trade Harding and get a decent forward in return! CF is pulling the trigger and so far so good but don't stop now, we deserve a cup contender................sometime soon!!!

[hoppe56307]

Wild just traded Nick Schultz for Tom Gilbert, didn't see that coming. I'm still trying to form on opinion on this move but we are getting better offensively and maybe giving up a little in the D zone. Interesting move for sure, Schultz has been here forever.

Schultz was drafted by the Wild and was the last remaining player from the inagral season i think.

[OnAFly]

Word is the goalie market is soft. It might be tough to find someone to take Harding for much.

As far as the Schultz/Gilbert trade, Oilers fans didn't seem to like him much. Schultz didn't look the same as years before either though. Jury is out in this one. Time will tell.

Zannon gone? I hope so.

[archerystud]

Kind of seems like both teams were sour on Gilbert/Schultz. This trade seems to be a wash, but yes time will tell.

The only move so far I haven't liked by CF was the Leddy/Barker trade. Still seems to be making a lot better moves than the DR regime!!

The only thing I'm a little concerned about is that the Wild might be VERY young on D next year, I'm kind of assuming that Lundin, Foster and Zanon are not on the Wild next year but who knows, that's still a long ways off.

[schmitty3]

I like this move. Schultz has been terrible this year. He has spent tons of time in the box, and just isn't the same inside their own zone as he was years past. He is suppose to be great in the D zone, but I just didn't see it. Plus he had one of the worst shots out of any NHLer I have seen.

[Bear55]

Looks like the Zanon rumors were a bit premature, holding out hope they can get something for him. I was hoping we could get something for Harding too, maybe not a lot of buyers out there right now.

[scsavre]

Right now we have 3 defense for next year. Gilbert, prosser and spurgeron.

Bring up brodin ($1.5mm) scadella $.8mm). It would feel pretty good to get rid of harding and zannon for a couple of good d man. I'm wondering if we will even sign stoner.

On forward we only have 8 guys including pmb so let's call it 7. I suppose bulmer and palmerie can duke it out for 8. Hopefully granland makes 9. Plenty of room and a ton of money.

We have a ton of free agents in houston too.

[Bryce]

Zanon to Boston

[schmitty3]

For Steven Kampfer. Another young D man. He's got 2 assist in 10 games this year, and was at +6.