The Minnesota Wild are putting together one of the best season’s the organization has seen in a long time, yet their future may only be getting brighter.
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.
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.