Joel Eriksson-Ek

signed today to a standard 3 year, entry-level contract.  He's expected to play in Sweden next season.  At this time, I haven't seen whether or not it is possible he comes to North America for the 2016-17 season.  It would seem wise to do so, as the North American style of play is different, as are the dimensions of the ice rinks.

I wouldn't expect any other 2015 draft picks to be signed this summer, as some of them are headed to college and others still need to demonstrate the merit of signing them.

Here is the Minnesota Wild draft history from 2009 to the present

I will try to update this as players are signed or not signed by the deadline.  Generally speaking, teams have the rights to college players as long as they remain in college.  Players who are in Canadian juniors must be signed withing two years or the team loses their rights.  The same is generally true with the exception of Switzerland (for sure) and Russia (possibly).

Year	2015	2014	2013	2012	2011	2010	2009
	1 Erickson-Ek (C)*	1 Tuch (LW) c	2 Olofsson (D)*	1 Dumba (D)*	1 Brodin (D) *	1 Granlund (C)*	1 Leddy (D)T
	2 Greenway (LW)	3 Belpedio (D) c	3 Gabriel (RW)*	2 Bussieres (LW)*	1 Phillps (C) *T	2 BULMER (RW)*	3 HACKETT (G)*T
	4 Stezka (G)	4 Kahkonen (G)	4 Labbe (D)*	3 Draeger (D) c	2 Lucia (LW) c	2 LARSSON (LW)*T	4 Foucault (LW)*
	5 Kaprizov (LW)	5 Faith (D)	5 Soucy (D) c	4 Gilmour (C) c	5 Seeler (D) c	2 ZUCKER (RW)*	4 Fallstrom (RW)T
	6 Boka (D)	6 Sjalin (D)	6 Peterson (C) c	5 Gunnarsson (D)	6 Michalek (G)*	6 Gustafsson (G)*	6 KUEMPER (G)*
	7 Bouramman (D)	6 Lang (C)	7 DeJong (D) c	6 Bertschy (C/W)*	7 GRAOVAC (C)*	7 McKinlay (RW)	6 Sallinen (LW)
	7 Sadak (D)	6 Duke (C)	7 Belanger (G)	7 Nanne (LW) c			7 HAULA (C)*
		7 Jenys (C/LW)*					7 Hamburg (RW)
* = Signed
------------- = Not signed
c =in college
T = Traded
CAPS = NHL games

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) --- ($ )

a new website

to create your own team.  I've done two things with it.  First, I've made my projected NHL roster and then, second, I've deleted all of the NHL roster players and made a roster of what the AHL team (the Iowa Wild) would look like.  Here's the link.