The Wild completed 4 trades in 2012 before the trade deadline passed on Monday Feb 27th. Their first trade came on February 3rd when they swapped centers with New York. The Wild sent underperforming center Wellman to the rangers for an elite shootout scoring center in Christensen. Their second trade came on February 24th, three days before the deadline, when they sent Zidlicky to the Devils. Zidlicky is an offensive minded defenseman but provided no goals for the Wild this season and did not seem to fit their new system. They received a haul for Zidlicky from the Devils including Foster, Veilleux, Palmieri, 2012 second-round pick and 2013 conditional pick. The reasoning behind this is they were able to clear Continue reading
Tag Archive: Zanon trade
The Wild have made their second trade of the day just before the 2:00 p.m. deadline. They have traded veteran defenseman Greg Zanon to the Boston Bruins for defenseman Steven Kampfer. The 23 year old Kampfer has spend most of this season in the AHL but has 5 goals and 7 assists in 48 games for the Bruins over two seasons. Like Gilbert he is a puck-moving defenseman. Zanon fell out of favor with the Wild this season and will be a free agent this offseason. With the Wild not wanting to re-sign Zanon they decided to trade him and get something back in return.
You can see all the trades by the Wild this season here.
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