Ryan Suter, Zach Parise and Chuck Fletcher were all smiles Monday. Wonder why? (Getty Images) July 4, 2012 will go down as one of Carlos Baerga Jersey the greatest days in Minnesota franchise history. That was the day that they officially signed and to 13-year contracts, something that few if any people outside of Minnesota saw happening.Heck, GM Chuck Fletcher wasn't even that sold it could happen. Everybody knew the Wild were going to give it their best shot, but to actually believe they could pull it off? Not even Fletcher who at one point thought the Wild were completely out of the hunt for either.Wild land Suter, PariseMore NHL coverage | | | Two days later the Wild were the talk of the NHL.The free-agency proce s in hockey is described as a frenzy. It conjures images of GMs holding three phones at once trying to keep the lines straight like Zach Morris as Nitro on the Teen Line -- that's if you watched , of course. Really, though, it wasn't that chaotic at all.Thanks to Michael Ru so of the who was on the Parise/Suter story like white on rice, into the whole proce s of flipping the Wild's profile upside down. It included a lot of waiting, a lot of doubt and a lot of jubilation.Here's just a taste of the piece from Ru so: Fast forward a bit and you had the culmination of the Wild's work.Really that's just a taste of the story. It's a great read from Ru so and rather fascinating, illuminating a proce s that usually remains behind closed doors. I highly recommend it, especially for Wild fans that haven't already seen it.Dropped in the story, though, are some revelations. Things like the identical contracts being the idea of Parise and the fact that each player took le s money to play for the Wild together. In Parise's case quite a bit le s as the Flyers were well into triple digits with an offer, and Suter had a bigger offer out there too.Some griped about the long wait for decisions from Parise and Suter. The wait surely seemed longer for Fletcher and the Wild but patience paid for them here. Jim Thome Jersey
Ryan Suter, Zach Parise and Chuck Fletcher were all smiles Monday. Wonder why? (Getty Images) July 4, 2012 will go down as one of Carlos Baerga Jersey the greatest days in Minnesota franchise history. That was the day that they officially signed and to 13-year contracts, something that few if any people outside of Minnesota saw happening.Heck, GM Chuck Fletcher wasn't even that sold it could happen. Everybody knew the Wild were going to give it their best shot, but to actually believe they could pull it off? Not even Fletcher who at one point thought the Wild were completely out of the hunt for either.Wild land Suter, PariseMore NHL coverage | | | Two days later the Wild were the talk of the NHL.The free-agency proce s in hockey is described as a frenzy. It conjures images of GMs holding three phones at once trying to keep the lines straight like Zach Morris as Nitro on the Teen Line -- that's if you watched , of course. Really, though, it wasn't that chaotic at all.Thanks to Michael Ru so of the who was on the Parise/Suter story like white on rice, into the whole proce s of flipping the Wild's profile upside down. It included a lot of waiting, a lot of doubt and a lot of jubilation.Here's just a taste of the piece from Ru so: Fast forward a bit and you had the culmination of the Wild's work.Really that's just a taste of the story. It's a great read from Ru so and rather fascinating, illuminating a proce s that usually remains behind closed doors. I highly recommend it, especially for Wild fans that haven't already seen it.Dropped in the story, though, are some revelations. Things like the identical contracts being the idea of Parise and the fact that each player took le s money to play for the Wild together. In Parise's case quite a bit le s as the Flyers were well into triple digits with an offer, and Suter had a bigger offer out there too.Some griped about the long wait for decisions from Parise and Suter. The wait surely seemed longer for Fletcher and the Wild but patience paid for them here. Jim Thome Jersey