Thomas Drance joins the show to discuss the Minnesota Wild buying out the rest of Ryan Suter and Zach Parise’s contracts. Topics include:

• Why they chose to do it now
• The pros and cons of buying out the contracts
• The one year of financial flexibility they created
• Why the Wild find themselves at a crossroads this offseason
• Kirill Kaprizov’s next contract
• The future dead cap charges that are coming
• Are they more or less likely to go after Eichel now?
• Going for it and worrying after vs. planning ahead
• The looming concerns about the recapture penalty
• Making trades ahead of the expansion draft
• Teams trying to learn from mistakes they made last time
• What Suter and Parise have left in the tank
• Potential landing spots for them this offseason

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