# 2017–18 Minnesota Wild season

The 2017–18 Minnesota Wild season was the 18th season for the National Hockey League franchise that was established on June 25, 1997.

## Standings

Central Division :
| Pos | Team v t e | GP | W | L | OTL | ROW | GF | GA | GD | Pts |
| 1 | p – Nashville Predators | 82 | 53 | 18 | 11 | 47 | 267 | 211 | +56 | 117 |
| 2 | x – Winnipeg Jets | 82 | 52 | 20 | 10 | 48 | 277 | 218 | +59 | 114 |
| 3 | x – Minnesota Wild | 82 | 45 | 26 | 11 | 42 | 253 | 232 | +21 | 101 |
| 4 | x – Colorado Avalanche | 82 | 43 | 30 | 9 | 41 | 257 | 237 | +20 | 95 |
| 5 | St. Louis Blues | 82 | 44 | 32 | 6 | 41 | 226 | 222 | +4 | 94 |
| 6 | Dallas Stars | 82 | 42 | 32 | 8 | 38 | 235 | 225 | +10 | 92 |
| 7 | Chicago Blackhawks | 82 | 33 | 39 | 10 | 32 | 229 | 256 | −27 | 76 |

## Schedule and results
### Preseason

The team's preseason schedule was released on June 13, 2017.

### Regular season

The regular season schedule was published on June 22, 2017.
2017–18 game log :
Legend:
  Win (2 points)
  Loss (0 points)
  Overtime/shootout loss (1 point) :

### Playoffs

2018 Stanley Cup playoffs :
Legend:
  Win
  Loss :

## Player statistics

As of April 21, 2018

### Skaters

Regular season :
| Player | GP | G | A | Pts | +/− | PIM |
| Eric Staal | 82 | 42 | 34 | 76 | 8 | 42 |
| Mikael Granlund | 77 | 21 | 46 | 67 | 13 | 18 |
| Jason Zucker | 82 | 33 | 31 | 64 | 8 | 44 |
| Ryan Suter | 78 | 6 | 45 | 51 | −1 | 34 |
| Mathew Dumba | 82 | 14 | 36 | 50 | 15 | 41 |
| Mikko Koivu | 82 | 14 | 31 | 45 | 9 | 46 |
| Charlie Coyle | 66 | 11 | 26 | 37 | 8 | 18 |
| Jared Spurgeon | 61 | 9 | 28 | 37 | −6 | 8 |
| Nino Niederreiter | 63 | 18 | 14 | 32 | 14 | 36 |
| Zach Parise | 42 | 15 | 9 | 24 | 0 | 14 |
| Marcus Foligno | 77 | 8 | 15 | 23 | 2 | 72 |
| Daniel Winnik | 81 | 6 | 17 | 23 | 5 | 27 |
| Matt Cullen | 79 | 11 | 11 | 22 | −1 | 20 |
| Tyler Ennis | 73 | 8 | 14 | 22 | −1 | 12 |
| Jonas Brodin | 73 | 6 | 15 | 21 | 23 | 30 |
| Joel Eriksson Ek | 75 | 6 | 10 | 16 | 2 | 22 |
| Chris Stewart$^‡$ | 47 | 9 | 4 | 13 | −1 | 27 |
| Mike Reilly$^‡$ | 38 | 2 | 8 | 10 | −6 | 18 |
| Nate Prosser | 56 | 3 | 6 | 9 | 8 | 19 |
| Gustav Olofsson | 41 | 0 | 8 | 8 | 0 | 14 |
| Zack Mitchell | 23 | 3 | 2 | 5 | −2 | 4 |
| Ryan Murphy | 21 | 2 | 3 | 5 | 8 | 16 |
| Luke Kunin | 19 | 2 | 2 | 4 | −3 | 13 |
| Nick Seeler | 22 | 0 | 4 | 4 | 10 | 21 |
| Kyle Quincey | 18 | 0 | 3 | 3 | −4 | 28 |
| Landon Ferraro | 2 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 |
| Kyle Rau | 3 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 |
| Jordan Greenway | 6 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 |
| Christoph Bertschy | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 4 |
| Cal O'Reilly | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Carson Soucy | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | −2 | 2 |
| Justin Kloos | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 |
Playoffs :
| Player | GP | G | A | Pts | +/- | PIM |
| Mikko Koivu | 5 | 0 | 4 | 4 | −2 | 2 |
| Zach Parise | 3 | 3 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 2 |
| Mikael Granlund | 5 | 1 | 2 | 3 | −1 | 0 |
| Matt Cullen | 5 | 1 | 1 | 2 | −3 | 2 |
| Eric Staal | 5 | 1 | 1 | 2 | −3 | 2 |
| Matt Dumba | 5 | 1 | 1 | 2 | −4 | 4 |
| Jordan Greenway | 5 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 0 |
| Nick Seeler | 5 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 7 |
| Jonas Brodin | 5 | 0 | 2 | 2 | −3 | 2 |
| Marcus Foligno | 5 | 1 | 0 | 1 | −2 | 16 |
| Daniel Winnik | 5 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 5 |
| Jared Spurgeon | 5 | 0 | 1 | 1 | −4 | 0 |
| Nate Prosser | 5 | 0 | 1 | 1 | −1 | 14 |
| Joel Eriksson Ek | 5 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 |
| Jason Zucker | 5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | −4 | 0 |
| Charlie Coyle | 5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | −3 | 2 |
| Nino Niederreiter | 5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | −4 | 0 |
| Carson Soucy | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | −3 | 0 |
| Kyle Rau | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 0 |
| Tyler Ennis | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 0 |
| Ryan Murphy | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |

### Goaltenders

Regular season :
| Player | GP | GS | TOI | W | L | OT | GA | GAA | SA | SV% | SO | G | A | PIM |
| Devan Dubnyk | 60 | 59 | 3,450:19 | 35 | 16 | 7 | 145 | 2.52 | 1,769 | .918 | 5 | 0 | 3 | 12 |
| Alex Stalock | 28 | 23 | 1,495:16 | 10 | 10 | 4 | 71 | 2.85 | 787 | .910 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Playoffs :
| Player | GP | GS | TOI | W | L | GA | GAA | SA | SV% | SO | G | A | PIM |
| Devan Dubnyk | 5 | 5 | 247:56 | 1 | 4 | 14 | 3.39 | 152 | .908 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Alex Stalock | 1 | 0 | 48:01 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1.25 | 16 | .938 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |

## Awards and honours
### Awards

Regular Season :
| Player | Award | Awarded |
| E. Staal | NHL All-Star game selection | January 10, 2018 |
| E. Staal | NHL First Star of the Month | March 1, 2018 |

### Milestones

Regular season :
| Player | Milestone | Reached |
| C. Stewart | 600th career NHL game | October 7, 2017 |
| L. Kunin | 1st career NHL game | October 14, 2017 |
| Z. Mitchell | 1st career NHL assist 1st career NHL point | October 14, 2017 |
| L. Kunin | 1st career NHL assist 1st career NHL point | October 21, 2017 |
| J. Kloos | 1st career NHL game | October 24, 2017 |
| L. Kunin | 1st career NHL goal | October 26, 2017 |
| Z. Mitchell | 1st career NHL goal | October 26, 2017 |
| T. Ennis | 100th career NHL goal | November 2, 2017 |
| E. Staal | 500th career NHL assist | November 9, 2017 |
| N. Niederreiter | 400th career NHL game | November 14, 2017 |
| M. Cullen | 1,400th career NHL game | December 22, 2017 |
| N. Prosser | 300th career NHL game | January 6, 2018 |
| M. Dumba | 100th career NHL point | January 10, 2018 |
| M. Cullen | 700th career NHL point | January 20, 2018 |
| J. Zucker | 300th career NHL game | February 3, 2018 |
| D. Dubnyk | 400th career NHL game | February 8, 2018 |
| C. Coyle | 200th career NHL point | February 10, 2018 |
| N. Seeler | 1st career NHL game | February 13, 2018 |
| M. Foligno | 400th career NHL game | February 13, 2018 |
| M. Koivu | 900th career NHL game | February 15, 2018 |
| N. Niederreiter | 100th career NHL goal | February 15, 2018 |
| N. Seeler | 1st career NHL assist 1st career NHL point | February 22, 2018 |
| E. Staal | 900th career NHL point | February 22, 2018 |
| J. Spurgeon | 500th career NHL game | February 23, 2018 |
| J. Spurgeon | 200th career NHL point | February 25, 2018 |
| C. Coyle | 400th career NHL game | February 27, 2018 |
| N. Niederreiter | 100th career NHL assist 200th career NHL point | March 4, 2018 |
| M. Dumba | 300th career NHL game | March 17, 2018 |
| D. Dubnyk | 200th career NHL win | March 17, 2018 |
| B. Boudreau | 500th career NHL win | March 24, 2018 |
| J. Greenway | 1st career NHL game | March 27, 2018 |
| J. Brodin | 400th career NHL game | March 31, 2018 |
| J. Brodin | 100th career NHL point | March 31, 2018 |
| D. Dubnyk | 400th career NHL start | April 2, 2018 |
| L. Belpedio | 1st career NHL game 1st career NHL assist 1st career NHL point | April 7, 2018 |
| J. Greenway | 1st career NHL assist 1st career NHL point | April 7, 2018 |
Playoffs :
| Player | Milestone | Reached |
| M. Foligno | 1st career playoff game | April 11, 2018 |
| J. Greenway | 1st career playoff game 1st career playoff assist 1st career playoff point | April 11, 2018 |
| N. Seeler | 1st career playoff game | April 11, 2018 |
| C. Soucy | 1st career playoff game | April 11, 2018 |
| J. Greenway | 1st career playoff goal | April 15, 2018 |
| J. Eriksson Ek | 1st career playoff assist 1st career playoff point | April 15, 2018 |
| N. Seeler | 1st career playoff assist 1st career playoff point | April 15, 2018 |
| M. Foligno | 1st career playoff goal 1st career playoff point | April 15, 2018 |
| K. Rau | 1st career playoff game | April 20, 2018 |
| R. Murphy | 1st career playoff game | April 20, 2018 |

## Transactions

The Wild have been involved in the following transactions during the 2017–18 season.

### Trades

| Date | Details | Details |
| June 21, 2017 (2017-06-21) | To Vegas Golden KnightsAlex Tuch | To Minnesota Wildconditional 3rd-round pick in 2017 or 2018 Expansion Draft considerations |
| June 23, 2017 (2017-06-23) | To Columbus Blue JacketsJordan Schroeder | To Minnesota WildDante Salituro |
| June 30, 2017 (2017-06-30) | To Buffalo SabresJason Pominville Marco Scandella 4th-round pick in 2018 | To Minnesota WildTyler Ennis Marcus Foligno 3rd-round pick in 2018 |
| February 8, 2018 (2018-02-08) | To New Jersey DevilsChristoph Bertschy Mario Lucia | To Minnesota WildViktor Loov |
| February 26, 2018 (2018-02-26) | To Montreal CanadiensMike Reilly | To Minnesota Wild5th-round pick in 2019 |

#### Notes

* The Vegas Golden Knights will select Erik Haula in the 2017 NHL Expansion Draft
Lost via retirement
DatePlayerRef
September 12, 2017 (2017-09-12)Ryan Carter :

### Player signings

| Date | Player | Contract terms (in U.S. dollars) |
| June 26, 2017 (2017-06-26) | Gustav Olofsson | 2-year, $1.45 million |
| June 27, 2017 (2017-06-27) | Pat Cannone | 1-year, $650,000 |
| July 2, 2017 (2017-07-02) | Mike Reilly | 2-year, $1.45 million |
| July 3, 2017 (2017-07-03) | Zach Palmquist | 1-year, $726,000 |
| July 8, 2017 (2017-07-08) | Kurtis Gabriel | 1-year, $715,000 |
| July 10, 2017 (2017-07-10) | Steve Michalek | 1-year, $715,000 |
| July 10, 2017 (2017-07-10) | Zack Mitchell | 1-year, $660,000 |
| July 30, 2017 (2017-07-30) | Nino Niederreiter | 5-year, $26.25 million |
| August 1, 2017 (2017-08-01) | Mikael Granlund | 3-year, $17.25 million |
| September 14, 2017 (2017-09-14) | Marcus Foligno | 4-year, $11.5 million |
| December 11, 2017 (2017-12-11) | Ivan Lodnia | 3-year, $2.775 million entry-level contract |
| March 26, 2018 (2018-03-26) | Jordan Greenway | 3-year, $3.675 million entry-level contract |
| April 5, 2018 (2018-04-05) | Louis Belpedio | 2-year, $1.85 million entry-level contract |
| April 27, 2018 (2018-04-27) | Mason Shaw | 3-year, $2.775 million entry-level contract |
| April 30, 2018 (2018-04-30) | Sam Anas | 2-year, $1.35 million contract extension |
| May 2, 2018 (2018-05-02) | Dmitri Sokolov | 3-year, $2.49 million entry-level contract |
| May 16, 2018 (2018-05-16) | Kaapo Kahkonen | 2-year, entry-level contract |

## Draft picks

Below are the Minnesota Wild's selections at the 2017 NHL Entry Draft, which was held on June 23 and 24, 2017 at the United Center in Chicago.
| Round | # | Player | Pos | Nationality | College/Junior/Club team (League) |
| 3 | 85 | Ivan Lodnia | RW | United States | Erie Otters (OHL) |
| 4 | 97$^1$ | Mason Shaw | C | Canada | Medicine Hat Tigers (WHL) |
| 4 | 116 | Bryce Misley | C | Canada | Oakville Blades (OJHL) |
| 5 | 147 | Jacob Golden | D | Canada | London Knights (OHL) |
| 6 | 178 | Andrei Svetlakov | C | Russia | CSKA Moscow (KHL) |
| 7 | 209 | Nick Swaney | C | United States | Waterloo Black Hawks (USHL) |
Draft notes:
* The Arizona Coyotes' fourth-round pick went to the Minnesota Wild as the result of a trade on February 26, 2017 that sent Grayson Downing, a first-round pick in 2017, a second-round pick in 2018 and a conditional fourth-round pick in 2019 to Arizona in exchange for Martin Hanzal, Ryan White and this pick.