The Minnesota Wild have entered a critical offseason, able to fully participate in free agency again after two years of significant salary cap constraints.Without an NHL playoff series win in the last 10 years,

Minnesota heads into free agency with millions in dead salary cap space finally gone, and signing Kirill Kaprizov to an extension is ‘priority No. 1’

Since he was hired as general manager, Bill Guerin has wanted to build the Wild into a championship team. Almost six years on the job, Guerin finally has his best chance to do that. “This is the first time we’ve had real flexibility in a long,