There are still several former Wild players who are still in the playoffs as they compete for the Stanley Cup.
The second round of the 2024 NHL Playoffs has officially started after last night's Florida Panthers vs Boston Bruins game.
There are several former Wild players who are still in the playoffs as they compete for the Stanley Cup.
Pat Maroon and Ian Cole are the only players on the list to have won a Stanley Cup in their career. Cole won two with the Pittsburgh Penguins. Maroon won two with the Tampa Bay Lightning and one with the St. Louis Blues.
13 former Wild players were eliminated in the first round but 11 former Wild players still remain.
Here's the list in order of most games played with the Wild:
• Ryan Suter (Dallas Stars) — 656 between 2012 and 2021
• Zach Parise (Colorado Avalanche) — 558 between 2012 and 2021
• Charlie Coyle (Boston Bruins) — 479 between 2012 and 2019
• Brent Burns (Carolina Hurricanes) — 453 between 2003 and 2011
• Brandon Duhaime (Colorado Avalanche) — 193 between 2021 and 2024
• Carson Soucy (Vancouver Canucks) — 108 between 2018 and 2021
• Brad Hunt (Colorado Avalanche) — 100 between 2019 and 2021. *Healthy scratch
• Dmitry Kulikov (Florida Panthers) — 80 between 2021 and 2022
• Sam Steel (Dallas Stars) — 65 between 2022 and 2023
• Ian Cole (Vancouver Canucks) — 52 between 2020 and 2021
• Pat Maroon (Boston Bruins) — 49 between 2023 and 2024
The Wild don't have any former players playing for the New York Rangers or the Edmonton Oilers but they do have two former Minnesota Gophers in Blake Wheeler and Ryan Lindgren on the Rangers roster and four total Minnesota natives with Jonny Brodzinski, K'Andre Miller, Wheeler, and Lindgren on New York.
There isn't really any ties to Minnesota on the Oilers roster other than Zach Hyman who played College Hockey with Wild defenseman Jon Merrill at Michigan for two seasons.
Also on the Oilers is Philip Kemp, who is currently a healthy scratch for the playoffs. But Kemp played College Hockey at Yale and played in the US NTDP with Gavin Hain, who is currently in the Wild's organization. Hain played in 47 AHL games with the Iowa Wild where he notched six goals and ten points this year.
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