Wild prospect Danila Yurov broke Vladimir Tarasenko’s KHL record for most points in a single season for a player under 21 years old, recording an assist on Thursday for his 48th point this season as his Metallurg team beat Amur 3-0.
The Minnesota Wild have grown quite the prospect pipeline from the KHL, since they hit on Kirill Kaprizov in the 5th round of the NHL Draft nearly a decade ago (2015).
When a team is battling hard to climb the standings and still believes they can make the playoffs while almost every number and probability equation says they cannot, they need their stars to perform.
It's getting impossible to ignore Danila Yurov's dominance in the KHL. Thanks to various factors, they got Yurov, a top-10 talent in his draft class, with the 24th pick of the 2022 Draft.
Even the Minnesota Wild bye weeks are packed with news these days. Most players have taken this time off to likely lounge on warm beaches as the league’s best arrives in Toronto, but the news around the team keeps churning.
Let's be clear, the Minnesota Wild should try their luck in the draft lottery to get Macklin Celebrini to address their top center concerns.
Bill Guerin and Director of Amateur Scouting Judd Bracket have been on a hot streak in the past few drafts.
As soon as next season, it has been a poorly kept secret the Minnesota Wild were banking heavily on overseas prospects, such as Danila Yurov, Liam Ohgren and Marat Khusnutdinov, coming to North America next year, infusing their forward core with a young jolt of offense.
Marco Rossi was beaming. He had a goal in the first period against the Montreal Canadiens, then assisted on Brock Faber’s goal in the third period. In between, he fought 6-foot-2, 205 lbs.
In Hockey Wilderness’s annual prospect rankings earlier this year, I wrote about how Minnesota Wild prospect Danila Yurov was the whole package and that he’d be arriving in North America sooner than later. I’m sorry, that's my bad.
Over the last couple of weeks, we’ve been able to watch some Minnesota Wild prospects in action while we wait for the 2023-24 regular season to begin. Last week, the Wild released a lot of their young prospects back to their Canadian Hockey League (CHL) teams to allow them to continue their development, playing big minutes for their club.
When Bill Guerin took over as GM of the Minnesota Wild in 2019, the team was in an interesting position, prospect-wise. Let's take a look at the team's prospect pool now.
Minnesota Wild fans are all too familiar with the struggle of getting Russian players to North America. News that one of their top prospects signing a KHL extension may raise concerns, but do the terms of the deal actually create a reason for optimism?
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