Yakov Trenin could help the Wild get their identity back.
Minnesota missed the playoffs for just the second time in the last 12 seasons and the first since 2019. They will try to get back into the playoffs next year and signing one or two players in Free Agency could help them do that.
The Wild aren't going to sign Sam Reinhart, Jake Guentzel, or Elias Lindholm. They would likely look to a few bottom-six type players to round out their depth or hope to land a cheap top-six forward.
Yakov Trenin – Center (Colorado Avalanche)
Stats: 17 points (12 G, 5 A) in 76 games, 1 point (1 G, 0 A) in 10 playoff games
2023-24 Salary - $1,700,000
After the end of the season, Wild President of Hockey Operations and General Manager Bill Guerin said not only does he want to improve the team's depth but he wants to help the team get their identity back.
Yakov Trenin would help them for sure.
"We have to find our swagger again. And when you talk about those six-on-five goals and stuff like that, we had swagger, we had confidence, we had a lot of FU in our game. And we need to find it, and we didn't have it this year," Guerin said. "In my mind, to be a playoff team, to be a championship team, you have to have that confidence and that swagger and that resiliency to be able to overcome things like injuries."
Trenin, 27, has 705 hits in 299 career NHL games. He recorded 207 hits last year in 76 games between the Nashville Predators and the Colorado Avalanche.
The Wild will hope that the elite penalty-killing, power forward will stay in the Central Divison, but this time with the Wild.
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