Minnesota Wild

D · Minnesota Wild

Eighteen years on from being the third pick, still playing a hard fourteen minutes and hitting everything that moves.

LW · Minnesota Wild

A big, skilled winger who took the leap last season and is now the second thing opponents have to plan for.

RW · Minnesota Wild

Five-foot-eight, no speed to speak of, and he keeps producing anyway.

D · Minnesota Wild

The quietest good defenceman in the league, and the one this team can least afford to lose.

LW · Minnesota Wild

Two Stanley Cups, a relentless motor, and a twenty-goal season at thirty-four.

C · Minnesota Wild

A six-three centre who wins faceoffs, kills penalties, stands in front of the net and quietly puts up fifty points.

D · Minnesota Wild

Twenty-three years old and already playing twenty-five minutes a night against the other team's best.

LW · Minnesota Wild

A heavy, honest winger fifteen years in, with the production falling away faster than the willingness.

LW · Minnesota Wild

Nineteen seasons, 1,287 games, and a fourth-line role he takes as seriously as any he has had.

C · Minnesota Wild

A defensive fourth-line centre on his fourth organisation, doing the same job at each of them.

G · Minnesota Wild

A goaltender who has been both excellent and ordinary in this league, and last season was neither.

RW · Minnesota Wild

A genuinely useful top-six winger and one of the more disliked opponents in the league, which is roughly how he wants it.

D · Minnesota Wild

One of the two or three best skating defencemen alive, playing twenty-eight minutes a night and touching every part of the game.

D · Minnesota Wild

A third-round defenceman getting his first real look, with no goals and not much evidence either way.

LW · Minnesota Wild

A fifth-round pick out of Russia who turned into the most electric goal-scorer this franchise has ever had.

C · Minnesota Wild

A twenty-nine-year-old with fifty career games, hanging onto the edge of a lineup.

D · Minnesota Wild

Two Cups, eight hundred games, and a defenceman whose whole job is to be unremarkable.

C · Minnesota Wild

Six-foot-six, ninety-three penalty minutes, and the most difficult minus-sixteen on the roster to interpret.

G · Minnesota Wild

A career backup having a bad year in a small sample, on his sixth organisation.

C · Minnesota Wild

Eleven years and four hundred and fifty games of fourth-line minutes, now down to under eight a night.

RW · Minnesota Wild

An undrafted KHL scorer who arrived at twenty-five and looked, in a bottom-six role, like he could do more.

C · Minnesota Wild

A relentless small forward whose career has been decided by his knees rather than his game.

D · Minnesota Wild

Five-foot-nine, a thousand games, and still taking the hardest defensive assignment on most nights.

C · Minnesota Wild

An undrafted German centre who has made a career out of faceoffs, penalty killing and being where he is supposed to be.

C · Minnesota Wild

A checking centre who plays the shifts nobody wants and finished plus-thirteen on a team that was mostly under water.

G · Minnesota Wild

A twenty-three-year-old who outplayed the starter in his first real NHL season.

RW · Minnesota Wild

A first-round Russian who spent his rookie season learning the league and finished it looking like he belonged.