The Wild Got It Wrong in 2012. They Must Get it Right in 2021.
It was a tough summer in the state of hockey, but it was perhaps the moment that was long needed and borderline overdue. Minnesota Wild’s Zach Parise and Ryan Suter, the two stud American hockey players (both from Minnesota, to boot), were given the news they would be getting the final four years of their 13-year, $98 million contracts bought out. This almost feels like a divorce after a marriage that both sides tried to make work for a very long time but the nadir finally reared itself in a time of great turmoil. The turmoil being the pandemic and the Wild’s sudden resurgence with a new superstar at the helm. The fallout hasn’t fully settled yet from Parise and Suter’s departure, but this marks a new era in Wild history. One where they just do not make the same mistakes they made with Parise and Suter. It would be wrong to blame Parise and Suter for the problems they unintentionally caused Minnesota over their tenure. When you have two players signed to that cap hit, for such a p...