Miscellaneous
Jason Zucker is gone and the Minnesota Wild could be featured in more trades over the next 13 days before the Feb. 24 NHL trade deadline strikes. As General Manager Bill Guerin made clear Tuesday, "if there is quit, there will be more trades." The pressure is on despite trading away Zucker, who just two years ago scored 33 goals and was rewarded with a long-term contract that paid him $5.5 million annually. Zucker is gone and so is his contract, which Gopher great and Minnesota hockey analyst Pat Micheletti thinks is a big win for the Wild. "With the number of no-move contracts that this organization has, the ability to free up money is really, really important for them," Micheletti said in an interview on Bring Me The News' High 'Opes podcast.