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Message: <blockquote data-quote="NDwalleyes" data-source="post: 167847" data-attributes="member: 218">I agree that there is good reason for Oshie to go to play for the Wild...mainly both his and Lauren's families are there. Lauren is from the MSP area I believe. It would be a perfect fit for his family.However I think there is one overriding factor you guys are not considering. Every NHL player dreams of winning Lord Stanley's Cup. Oshie was burned bad by by Washington. They had the team to win it all this year and it didn't happen. Blame Ovi, blame the coach...but it doesn't matter. Massive failure and now free agency will dismantle this team.This may be TJ's last big contract, so if he wants to win the cup, he needs to pick the right team. That team is not the MN Wild as much as you would like it to be. Remember when the Wild signed Parise and Suter to those big contracts? It's time to pay the piper and salary cap space is going to prevent it. They are only projected to have 11.4 million in cap space at the end of this year. Oshie will require more than Parise who is a 7.5 million hit. They also need to sign Neiderreider and Grandlund, so that cap space gets eaten up pretty quick. On a side note, remember when they signed those two and Matt Cullen said he wanted to stay in MN and would take less money to do so? But they still sent Cullen packing anyway...how's that working out for Cullen who could very likely win his 2nd cup in 2 years?!I hope I'm wrong, and TJ's wife drops the hammer on him and says, "Damn it TJ.. we're going home to MN.  And you're going to play for the Wild for $150,000! I want to be by my parents TJ! You know it could happen this way too.</blockquote>

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