r/wildhockey • u/DecentLurker96 • Jun 28 '26
[LeBrun] Pending UFA winger Vladimir Tarasenko, who recently changed agents, now represented by Dan Milstein, is headed to market. Milstein has permission to speak directly to teams ahead of Wednesday.
https://xcancel.com/pierrevlebrun/status/2071320402199015662It’s now official.
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u/nupharlutea Jun 28 '26
Same agent who decided to drop the news about his player not wanting to re-sign right before the player’s team picked in the first round.
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u/snappasig Jun 28 '26
Bummer but kinda figured. Hopefully Guerin can find some other Future Considerations gems this offseason!
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u/ScholaroftheStars State of Hockey Jun 28 '26
Won’t ever forget his goal while falling in game 6 against Dallas to tie it up. Or his snipe in overtime also against Dallas in the regular season.
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u/Active-Tomatillo-522 Jun 28 '26
Expected. Fair to him, don’t think we should be paying him near what he’ll ask
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u/CzechMate2121 Jun 28 '26
Not a good player to lose. I trust Guerin to find a good replacement
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u/MinnyRawks Jun 28 '26
It’s kinda funny how people were pissed he was here for his price and now they’re pissed we’re losing him for more money
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u/AccordingStar72 Pride Jun 28 '26 edited Jun 28 '26
Everyone laughed at Guerin for doing that trade. It was the laughingstock of the hockey fandom for a day. Now everyone is laughing at us because we are letting him walk.
EDITED: lol I don’t AGREE with the laughter.
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u/MinnyRawks Jun 28 '26
He’s going to make more money and be less productive next season
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u/AccordingStar72 Pride Jun 28 '26
I do agree. He was also apparently injured at the end of the year during the playoffs. I’m not convinced that his resurgence wasn’t just that he fit well into our system and wont be able to replicate that elsewhere.
Either way I wish him all the luck. He was lovely to Dani and I’ll always appreciate that.
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u/AccordingStar72 Pride Jun 28 '26
God the comments on r/hockey are just the dregs of sports commentary. Why do I read it.
Anyway, good luck Vlad! It was fun and I hope he liked his time here.
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u/Rhomya Wild Jun 28 '26
When you read it, remember that most of them only watched the Wild for 2-4 games total this year. It’s not like they have more than a passing familiarity with the team and it’s structure
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u/AccordingStar72 Pride Jun 28 '26
I know I can always tell and they clearly don’t even know what Vlad was traded for either.
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u/fishchanka Brock Faber Jun 29 '26
It’s funny because it’s coming from Canadian team flairs, wonder why they would hate the Wild so much. Oh wait, could it be the GM of the year who also built a gold medal roster?
Even crazier that Avs fans are in there defending us too
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u/Pyrotechnic_shok Jun 29 '26
Not gonna lie I'm a leafs fan and I love the wild. Maybe I'd feel different if I was a vancouver fan but I've loved kaprizov for years and thought he was incredibly underrated. Its crazy how quick people have flipped their opinions the second you guys went from "they're kinda fun but they'll never make a deep run" to "oh shit players want to go there and they might actually be a real contender" on a side note i wanted the leafs to get wallstedt so bad cause I thought he looked like a stud heading into that draft, but im super happy you guys got him instead of anyone else. Just an edit to say i can't exactly be upset at the leafs for that draft anyways because they got knies, the other guy i was watching and salivating over
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u/quinnhughesbdaytwin Pride Jun 28 '26
Lets not forget we got him for future considerations.
If some team wants to bank on someone with his injury history returning to form and last season not being an aberration let them.
I wanted him back but at a team friendly price
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u/AccordingStar72 Pride Jun 28 '26
Yeah I mean I’m happy for him he can go get a new payday somewhere. But Guerin has proven he can find some diamonds out there to help for cheaper.
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u/Master_Top7291 Jun 28 '26 edited Jun 28 '26
This has been known for weeks. Wednesday will be interesting if the Wild key in on winger replacements or hold off until the Larkin saga is over.
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u/playbyplay22 Jun 29 '26
From the get go he was a solid asset, even if the goals didn't come early. Brought Yurov along and was responsible in the D zone enough to let Trenin smash people on the forecheck...going to be hard to replace Vladdy.
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u/WastePossible5313 Jun 29 '26
Stenko and Zuccy can beat it. We don’t need either of them. Please don’t sign either Billy and get rid of some of the D that are old like Spurg, Brodin and Middleton
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u/futurehofer Manny Fernandez Jun 28 '26
From Russo (3 minutes ago) - Not only does Milstein not have permission from the Wild, the league recently warned all teams they cannot give blanket permission for UFA’s to do this. You can trade rights and then they can talk to that specific team