Blog Philosophy

The main point of this blog is to provide a one-stop location for fans of the Minnesota Wild to follow their prospects. Of particular note are the embedded statistics for each of the players provided by hockeydb.com or eliteprospects.com. Indeed, the website was first put together so the author could more easily follow prospects that had not yet made the MN Wild roster! Hockeydb.com and eliteprospects.com do not have all of the prospects and their statistics on one page. Other features will be provided on the blog in the future and will likely include statistics of players who are on the Iowa Wild of the AHL or the Orlando Sun Bears of the East Coast Hockey League (ECHL) or the Quad City Mallards of the Central Hockey League (CHL).

Occasional blog entries will also be present on a variety of topics that move beyond prospects, but are certainly limited to hockey. Blog entries aren't always comprehensive and may certainly omit some points/analysis for brevity.

The author doesn't pretend to be an expert nor have the time or ability to watch every Canadian Hockey League, American Hockey League, East Coast Hockey League, etc, game. The author does, however, certainly feel that he knows quite a bit about hockey. Much of his commentary is as a result of reading a lot of news articles from mainstream media such as tsn.ca, Minneapolis Star-Tribune, the St. Paul Pioneer Press, etc... The author does NOT merely repeat what other blogs or others in hockey forums write as he has noticed a lot of moronic opinions out there... The author's views and predictions will sometimes differ than major media reports such as Michael Russo, but he does not have access to professional scouts, players or management officials to make more informed predictions some matters.

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Sunday, July 12, 2015

Link to my projectd 2015-16 Iowa Wild line-up



The line-up is just based upon where I feel they are on the Minnesota Wild depth chart, the role Minnesota is likely grooming them for (scoring, powerplay, etc.), and whether they are left or right shot or have played center. I hope to check out a few Iowa games on my computer to see how they do over the season -particularly since the Minnesota roster won't likely be too different this year.

I believe Reilly will be sent to Iowa to begin to become accustomed to the physical aspects of professional hockey and to give him significant minutes, including on the powerplay.  I think Folin will be sent, as well, for the minutes reason and also, because he doesn't have to go through waivers to be sent, whereas some "bubble" forwards like Keranen and Schroeder would.

I used the tools on the website NHLGuru.net.

Feel free to leave any feedback!

Cap numbers are meaningless for this purpose (AHL) and are automatically included from website.


FORWARDS
R. Fedotenko ($ 600,000) --- T. Graovac ($ 747,500) --- M. Hagel ($ 700,000)
G. Downing ($ 692,500) --- B. Sutter ($ 600,000) --- Z. Mitchell ($ 615,000)
C. Bertschy ($ 925,000) --- Z. Dalpe ($ 700,000) --- J. Knight ($ 761,000)
B. Brassart ($ 836,667) --- P. Jenys ($ 683,333) --- K. Gabriel ($ 666,667)


DEFENCE
M. Reilly ($ 925,000) --- C. Folin ($ 725,000)
G. Olofsson ($ 795,000) --- T. Strachan ($ 650,000)
D. Labbe ($ 692,500) --- Z. Palmquist ($ 692,500)


GOAL
B. Hoffman ($ 925,000)
S. Michalek


Extras

R. Bussieres ($ 759,167) --- B. Bulmer ($ 780,000) --- G. Gelinas ($ 596,667) --- ($ )

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