Mike Russo reporting that Wild GM has been given the green light by ownership to make trades even if it costs the team a playoff spot.
https://theathletic.com/818760/2019/...-zucker-staal/
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Fenton has the ability to trade members of the Wild core even if the result of the trade (or trades) costs the Wild a chance to make this year’s playoffs for a seventh consecutive season.
That doesn’t mean Fenton necessarily will push out core players. But he essentially does have the thumbs-up from the head honcho if he wants to.
That suddenly means that in addition to the prototypical pending free-agent trade-deadline rentals like Staal and Eric Fehr being on the block, Fenton — who last month dealt Nino Niederreiter to Carolina — has permission to trade core players like Charlie Coyle, Mikael Granlund, Jason Zucker and Jonas Brodin even if the result is the Wild taking a step or two back in the short-term in an attempt to get better in the long-term.
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