The Minnesota Wild are among the top teams in the entire NHL, with this season being arguably their best shot at winning their first Stanley Cup. They already extended Kirill Kaprizov and acquired Quinn Hughes from the Vancouver Canucks, but they were still looking to make a splash at the trade deadline. One name consistently linked to the Wild has been New York Rangers center Vincent Trocheck.
There were obvious links to the Wild and Trocheck, most notably General Manager Bill Guerin selecting him for United States Olympic team. It felt as though it would be a foregone conclusion that the Wild and Rangers agreed to terms on a trade before Friday's 3:00 p.