Minnesota Wild to be awarded 2nd round pick after failing to sign former first round pick
The Minnesota Wild will be getting a little bit of compensation for not being able to sign a player.
According to The Athletic's Michael Russo, the Wild will not be signing 2018 first-round pick Filip Johansson by tomorrow's deadline. This means the team will receive a compensatory second-round pick (56th overall) for the 2022 NHL Draft taking place July 8 in Montreal.
The team attempted to sign him but a deal could not be reached, so they are not just getting a pick because they chose not to sign him. The compensatory pick is 31 slots after their first-round pick, relative to their place in the overall standings.
Minnesota will now have two second-round picks in the draft, but one of them possibly could be used as trade bait or as a sweetener in a deal, especially with the team's salary cap issues.
As we've speculated for some time, #mnwild aren't signing 2018 first-round pick Filip Johansson by tomorrow's deadline and will receive a compensatory second-round pick (56th overall) July 8 in Montreal - per multiple sources.
Barring trade, Wild will have 2 seconds in 2022 Michael Russo (@RussoHockey) May 31, 2022
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| Dylan Coghlan | 1 | - | 1 | |
| Pavel Dorofeyev | 1 | - | 1 | |
| Nic Dowd | 1 | - | 1 | |
| Brett Howden | 1 | - | 1 | |
| Gabriel Landeskog | 1 | - | 1 | |
| Valeri Nichushkin | 1 | - | 1 | |
| Rasmus Andersson | - | 1 | 1 | |
| Ross Colton | - | 1 | 1 | |
| Jack Eichel | - | 1 | 1 | |
| Tomas Hertl | - | 1 | 1 | |
| Ben Hutton | - | 1 | 1 | |
| Nathan MacKinnon | - | 1 | 1 | |
| Mitch Marner | - | 1 | 1 | |
| Brandon Saad | - | 1 | 1 | |
| Colton Sissons | - | 1 | 1 | |
| Devon Toews | - | 1 | 1 | |
| Jack Ahcan | - | - | - | |
| Ivan Barbashev | - | - | - | |
| Brent Burns | - | - | - | |
| Jack Drury | - | - | - | |
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