Minnesota Wild general manager Bill Guerin has acquired F Marcus Johnasson from the Washington Capitals for a 3rd-round pick in the 2024 NHL Draft.
This is the second time the Wild and Bill Guerin have acquired the forward from Sweden. They also acquired him from Buffalo back in September of 2020. He’s a 32-year-old forward with offensive skills that can score and produce on the power play. He also skates well.
In that 2020-21 season, he had 14 points in 36 games. 4 of those goals and 6 of those points did come on the power play. He ended up breaking his arm twice including in the playoffs during the pandemic-shortened season.
A 3rd-round pick seems a little high but it is from the 2024 draft so they have time to recoup that pick if they so desire. They do have a very good farm system, one that was picked as the best in the league by The Athletic.
It will be interesting to see what else the Wild do before the Trade Deadline at 3pm on Friday, March 3rd. Rumor has it, they’re interested in F Brock Boeser from Vancouver & F James Van Rymsdyk from Philadelphia. Boeser still has 2 more years remaining on his $6.675M cap hit contract so they would need Vancouver or another team to step in to retain a lot of that salary.
We can’t see this trade being the only thing Billy G does, especially since he has the ability to add some $10M at the deadline and he likes the way his team responded to the bad stretch out of the All-Star break.
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