After serval offseason rumors about trades and offer sheets, the Minnesota Wild and Marco Rossi have finally agreed to a contract. It is a three-year deal for Rossi coming in at $5,000,000 average annual salary.
According to PuckPedia and Michael Russo, Rossi's contract will be $4M salary in year one, $5M in year two and $6M in year three. He will have a $6M qualifying offer heading into his first unrestricted season.
Rossi, 23, is coming off of a career-year where he recorded 24 goals, 36 assists and 60 points in all 82 games. The 5-foot-9 center has posted back-to-back 20-goal seasons and will be making middle-six money for the next three years.
Seems like quite the steal for the Wild.
You can see by Dom's model that in terms of market value this is a steal for the Wild. The knock on Rossi is his size. He is the only 5-foot-9 top-six center in the entire NHL.
Despite getting to the net and scoring all his goals outside the crease, Rossi still gets the persona of a guy who is easily pushed off the puck because of his height.
As Rossi has continued to prove, he took it upon himself and gained 14 pounds of muscle this offseason and is now up to 196 pounds. Making it even harder to be pushed off the puck.
Now that Rossi has been re-signed, how do the lines look?
Kirill Kaprizov - Joel Eriksson Ek - Mats Zuccarello
Matt Boldy - Marco Rossi - Vladimir Tarasenko
Marcus Foligno - Ryan Hartman - Yakov Trenin
Marcus Johansson - Nico Sturm - Liam Ohgren
Danila Yurov - Vinnie Hinostroza