Former Wild defenseman Nick Leddy is set to play in his 1,000th career NHL game on Saturday when his St. Louis Blues come to Minnesota.
Former Wild defenseman Nick Leddy is set to play in his 1,000th career NHL game on Saturday. He will do it in Minnesota against the team that drafted him.
The Wild drafted Leddy with the 16th overall pick in the 2008 NHL Draft but eventually flipped him to the Chicago Blackhawks for Cam Barker.
Leddy, 33, never suited up for the Wild in a regular season game. He went on to win a Stanley Cup with the Blackhawks a few years after they traded for him.
Barker was a former third-overall pick by the Blackhawks in the 2004 NHL draft. He had six goals and 40 points in 68 games for the Blackhawks during the 2008-09 season and then was traded for Leddy the following year.
He only lasted 71 games with the Wild across two seasons before the Wild moved on from him. In those two seasons, Barker notched two goals and 12 points.
In his 14-year career, Leddy has recorded 73 goals and 407 points in 999 career NHL games. Barker played in only 39 NHL games after the Wild moved on from him. After that, Barker played five years in the KHL, one in the NL, one in the Liiga, and two in the Ligue Magnus.
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