Wild add grit with Trenin as dead cap space for Parise-Suter buyouts keeps them on bargain hunt

FILE - Colorado Avalanche center Yakov Trenin (73) skates in the second period of an NHL hockey game against the Edmonton Oilers, April 18, 2024, in Denver. The Minnesota Wild signed former Nashville and Colorado center Trenin to a four-year, $14 million contract. The team entered free agency with by far the most amount of dead buyout money in the NHL this summer at more than $14.7 million against their salary cap.

FILE - Colorado Avalanche center Yakov Trenin (73) skates in the second period of an NHL hockey game against the Edmonton Oilers, April 18, 2024, in Denver. The Minnesota Wild signed former Nashville and Colorado center Trenin to a four-year, $14 million contract. The team entered free agency with by far the most amount of dead buyout money in the NHL this summer at more than $14.7 million against their salary cap. (AP Photo/David Zalubowski, File)


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ST. PAUL, Minn. — The Minnesota Wild are almost done with their dead weight. They have one more summer to serve in salary cap jail. The upper limit of the 2024-25 salary cap was set at $88 million per club. The Wild carried a charge of more than $14.7 million into the beginning of free agency for buying out the contracts of stalwarts Zach Parise and Ryan Suter three years ago. No other NHL team comes close to the amount of spending limitation the Wild have. They used much of their cap space by signing center Yakov Trenin to a four-year, $14 million contract.

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