Other things that I enjoy about the article:
The obligatory mention of the Minnesota-born players one way or another.
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For a team based in Minnesota, the organization showed very little faith in that state's developmental programs.
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The fact that Chuck Fletcher allows his father to be general manager of the Minnesota Wild. Where's Russo with this news?
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Nonetheless, Cliff Fletcher's new regime will have a fair amount of leeway as it makes up for some mediocre draft years.
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The fact that the Wild pipeline is so bad that the article admits the number 17 prospect has no shot of making the NHL.
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His North American career currently compares unfavorably with a player like Patrick Thoresen's and his time as a Minnesota prospect is all but done.
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I sort of believe that if you take out the guys who are technically there because there are no other guys, there would be less than twenty prospects. Heck for a team which has a weak goaltender pipeline, there are four of them in the top twenty because there's no one left.