Episode #97: 2026 Wild Draft & Free Agency Review

Obviously, last week we had the NHL entry draft and, of course, the opening of free agency.

So there's tons of stuff to talk about.

The Minnesota Wild went into the NHL entry draft with five selections.

uh, at their disposal, um, only ended up using, well, they ended up using them all, but only ended up making three selections because, uh, they made some trades.

And so what we're going to kind of do is kind of do kind of a quick overview of each of the three players that they selected, which by the way is the smallest draft class they've ever had.

I think they had two other years where they had draft classes of four players.

So, so not a lot of new faces, but I guess these are the faces that they really, really wanted.

So yeah, Teresa, you can go ahead and share who I guess we picked in these respective spots.

Okay, starting off in the third round, 83rd overall.

You want to mention

the trade.

We had a trade there.

Let me finish reading.

Okay.

First off, the Wild traded the 89th overall.

pick in the third round and the 153rd pick in the fifth round to Los Angeles to move up to the 83rd overall pick and with that they got a center Adam Anderson and who played for Lexan Jr. in the Swedish Junior League.

Six foot four, 250 pounds from Stockholm, shoots left, and last, this most recent season, he had 30 games played, three goals, 14 assists for 17 points, and 24 penalty minutes, and was an even plus minus.

Okay.

I guess, any thoughts on that? How about you, Steve, on Adam Anderson?

Yeah, I don't have any real disagreement with him as a choice, but I still think they could have had him without having to give up a draft pick.

So

you don't think we really had a fear of him being picked up so soon? Yeah.

How many slots did they move up?

So not many.

Six? Yeah.