While Minnesota missed the playoffs this season for just the second time since 2012, there are 24 former Wild players in the postseason right now across 13 teams. 21 of those 24 players have or are expected to appear in a playoff game.
Out of the 16 clubs in the playoffs, the Vegas Golden Knights, Edmonton Oilers and New York Rangers are the only teams without a former Wild player.
Here's the list in order of most games played with the Wild:
• Ryan Suter (Dallas Stars) — 656 between 2012 and 2021
• Matt Dumba (Tampa Bay Lightning) — 598 between 2013 and 2023
• Zach Parise (Colorado Avalanche) — 558 between 2012 and 2021
• Charlie Coyle (Boston Bruins) — 479 between 2012 and 2019
• Jason Zucker (Nashville Predators) — 456 between 2011 and 2020
• Brent Burns (Carolina Hurricanes) — 453 between 2003 and 2011
• Nino Niederreiter (Winnipeg Jets) — 434 between 2013 and 2019
• Cal Clutterbuck (New York Islanders) — 346 between 2007 and 2013
• Kevin Fiala (L.A. Kings) — 215 between 2019 and 2022
• Brandon Duhaime (Colorado Avalanche) — 193 between 2021 and 2024
• Connor Dewar (Toronto Maple Leafs) — 173 between 2021 and 2024
• Carson Soucy (Vancouver Canucks) — 108 between 2018 and 2021
• Darcy Kuemper (Washington Capitals) — 102 between 2013 and 2017. *Backing up starter Charlie Lindgren
• Brad Hunt (Colorado Avalanche) — 100 between 2019 and 2021. *Healthy scratch
• Mike Reilly (New York Islanders) — 84 between 2016 and 2018
• Cam Talbot (L.A. Kings) — 82 between 2020 and 2022
• Dmitry Kulikov (Florida Panthers) — 80 between 2021 and 2022
• Sam Steel (Dallas Stars) — 65 between 2022 and 2023
• Ryan Reaves (Toronto Maple Leafs) — 61 between 2022 and 2023
• Ian Cole (Vancouver Canucks) — 52 between 2020 and 2021
• Pat Maroon (Boston Bruins) — 49 between 2023 and 2024
• John Klingberg (Toronto Maple Leafs) — 17 in 2023 *Out for season
• Gustav Nyquist (Nashville Predators) — 3 in 2023
• Mitchell Chaffee (Tampa Bay Lightning) — 2 in 2022
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