Minnesota Wild interested in Ruslan Fedotenko?

Given that it’s July 3rd and he still hasn’t signed leads me to believe that Tenk is going elsewhere. I suspect the Wild would be able to lavish him with a $1M more a season. Hate seeing the Pens lose key role players (I do think Scuds was a big loss) you do need to keep things fresh in order to repeat. I recall after the Cup Finals loss the devistation at losing all the guys that were lost last year, Malone, Maid Marian all kinds of key contributors. This year not as bad, but key losses none the less. Wonder what will become of the remaining $4.7M in cap space. One Star or several role players?

Now that Gill & Scuds are gone, perhaps it makes sense for Shero to pursue a defensive-minded D-man UFA. IT seems EZ’r to add one of those vs finding a F who can play w/ Geno. I would not be surprised if Tyler K ends up on his line or they move TK up to the top line & move Kunitz to Geno’s line. They could stick Caputi on Geno’s line too – I think he’d do just fine having to keep his stick on the ice for Geno’s passes.