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NHL Burning Questions: Minnesota Wild

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Welcome to the latest file in THN.com’s continuing “Three Burning Questions” series. Here, we ask three major questions for every NHL team before the beginning of the 2022-23 regular season. We have Three Burning Questions about the Minnesota Wild in today’s file.

THREE BURNING QUESTIONS FOR THN WILD IN 2022-23:

1. Will the Wild’s new goaltending duo of Marc-Andre Fleury and Filip Gustavsson pan out? Despite a franchise-record 53 wins and 113 standings points, the air went out of the Wild in Round One of the Stanley Cup playoffs when the St. Louis Blues beat them in six games. GM Bill Guerin’s big salary cap gamble centered around the buyout of aging veterans Ryan Suter and Zach Parise did not pay off, and Minnesota once again failed to win even a single playoff game for the first time since the 2014 post-season. But while the Wild were outscored 19-5 in their four losses to the Blues, there was no sense Minnesota needed a different tandem in net.

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