# 2016–17 Minnesota Wild season

The 2016–17 Minnesota Wild season was the 17th 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 | z – Chicago Blackhawks | 82 | 50 | 23 | 9 | 46 | 244 | 213 | +31 | 109 |
| 2 | x – Minnesota Wild | 82 | 49 | 25 | 8 | 46 | 266 | 208 | +58 | 106 |
| 3 | x – St. Louis Blues | 82 | 46 | 29 | 7 | 44 | 235 | 218 | +17 | 99 |
| 4 | x – Nashville Predators | 82 | 41 | 29 | 12 | 39 | 240 | 224 | +16 | 94 |
| 5 | Winnipeg Jets | 82 | 40 | 35 | 7 | 37 | 249 | 256 | −7 | 87 |
| 6 | Dallas Stars | 82 | 34 | 37 | 11 | 33 | 223 | 262 | −39 | 79 |
| 7 | Colorado Avalanche | 82 | 22 | 56 | 4 | 21 | 166 | 278 | −112 | 48 |

## Schedule and results
### Regular season

2016–17 Game Log :
Legend:
  Win (2 points)
  Loss (0 points)
  Overtime/shootout loss (1 point) :

### Playoffs

2017 Stanley Cup playoffs :

## Player statistics

Final Stats

### Skaters

Regular Season :
| Player | GP | G | A | Pts | +/− | PIM |
| Mikael Granlund | 81 | 26 | 43 | 69 | 23 | 12 |
| Eric Staal | 82 | 28 | 37 | 65 | 17 | 34 |
| Mikko Koivu | 80 | 18 | 40 | 58 | 27 | 34 |
| Nino Niederreiter | 82 | 25 | 32 | 57 | 17 | 53 |
| Charlie Coyle | 82 | 18 | 38 | 56 | 13 | 36 |
| Jason Zucker | 79 | 22 | 25 | 47 | 34 | 30 |
| Jason Pominville | 78 | 13 | 34 | 47 | 2 | 4 |
| Zach Parise | 69 | 19 | 23 | 42 | −3 | 30 |
| Ryan Suter | 82 | 9 | 31 | 40 | 34 | 36 |
| Jared Spurgeon | 76 | 10 | 28 | 38 | 33 | 20 |
| Mathew Dumba | 76 | 11 | 23 | 34 | 15 | 59 |
| Erik Haula | 72 | 15 | 11 | 26 | 5 | 28 |
| Jonas Brodin | 68 | 3 | 22 | 25 | 5 | 20 |
| Chris Stewart | 79 | 13 | 8 | 21 | 3 | 94 |
| Jordan Schroeder | 37 | 6 | 7 | 13 | 5 | 0 |
| Martin Hanzal$^†$ | 20 | 4 | 9 | 13 | −2 | 10 |
| Marco Scandella | 71 | 4 | 9 | 13 | −2 | 25 |
| Tyler Graovac | 52 | 7 | 2 | 9 | 7 | 10 |
| Christian Folin | 51 | 2 | 6 | 8 | 10 | 26 |
| Joel Eriksson Ek | 15 | 3 | 4 | 7 | 1 | 4 |
| Nate Prosser | 39 | 2 | 5 | 7 | 0 | 12 |
| Ryan White$^†$ | 19 | 2 | 1 | 3 | −8 | 14 |
| Zac Dalpe$^‡$ | 9 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 0 | 9 |
| Gustav Olofsson | 13 | 0 | 3 | 3 | −1 | 2 |
| Teemu Pulkkinen$^‡$ | 9 | 1 | 0 | 1 | −1 | 2 |
| Mike Reilly | 17 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 |
| Christoph Bertschy | 5 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 4 |
| Kurtis Gabriel | 13 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 29 |
| Patrick Cannone | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Zack Mitchell | 11 | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 0 |
| Alex Tuch | 6 | 0 | 0 | 0 | −3 | 0 |
Playoffs :
| Player | GP | G | A | Pts | +/− | PIM |
| Zach Parise | 5 | 2 | 1 | 3 | −4 | 8 |
| Ryan Suter | 5 | 1 | 2 | 3 | −3 | 10 |
| Charlie Coyle | 5 | 2 | 0 | 2 | −1 | 2 |
| Mikko Koivu | 5 | 1 | 1 | 2 | −1 | 0 |
| Mikael Granlund | 5 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 2 |
| Martin Hanzal | 5 | 1 | 0 | 1 | −2 | 0 |
| Jason Zucker | 5 | 1 | 0 | 1 | −1 | 2 |
| Jonas Brodin | 5 | 0 | 1 | 1 | −3 | 0 |
| Erik Haula | 4 | 0 | 1 | 1 | −2 | 0 |
| Nino Niederreiter | 5 | 0 | 1 | 1 | −2 | 2 |
| Jason Pominville | 5 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 |
| Nate Prosser | 3 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 2 |
| Jared Spurgeon | 5 | 0 | 1 | 1 | −1 | 0 |
| Eric Staal | 5 | 0 | 1 | 1 | −1 | 0 |
| Mathew Dumba | 5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 2 |
| Joel Eriksson Ek | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Christian Folin | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | −2 | 2 |
| Chris Stewart | 5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Marco Scandella | 5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 0 |
| Ryan White | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 4 |

### Goaltenders

Regular Season :
| Player | GP | GS | TOI | W | L | OT | GA | GAA | SA | SV% | SO | G | A | PIM |
| Devan Dubnyk | 65 | 63 | 3758:00 | 40 | 19 | 5 | 141 | 2.25 | 1842 | .923 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 10 |
| Darcy Kuemper | 18 | 17 | 1053:02 | 8 | 5 | 3 | 55 | 3.13 | 562 | .902 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 4 |
| Alex Stalock | 2 | 2 | 118:55 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 1.51 | 54 | .944 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Playoffs :
| Player | GP | GS | TOI | W | L | GA | GAA | SA | SV% | SO | G | A | PIM |
| Devan Dubnyk | 5 | 5 | 322:15 | 1 | 4 | 10 | 1.86 | 133 | .925 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
$^†$Denotes player spent time with another team before joining the Wild. Stats reflect time with the Wild only. $^‡$Traded mid-season

## Awards and honours
### Awards

Regular Season :
| Player | Award | Awarded |
| D. Dubnyk | NHL Third Star of the Month | January 3, 2017 |
| B. Boudreau | NHL All-Star game selection | January 10, 2017 |
| D. Dubnyk | NHL All-Star game selection | January 10, 2017 |
| R. Suter | NHL All-Star game selection | January 10, 2017 |

### Milestones

Regular Season :
| Player | Milestone | Reached |
| D. Dubnyk | 300th Career NHL Game | October 15, 2016 |
| J. Eriksson Ek | 1st Career NHL Goal 1st Career NHL Point | October 22, 2016 |
| Z. Parise | 300th Career NHL Goal | October 23, 2016 |
| J. Eriksson Ek | 1st Career NHL Assist | October 25, 2016 |
| T. Graovac | 1st Career NHL Goal 1st Career NHL Point | October 29, 2016 |
| E. Haula | 200th Career NHL Game | November 12, 2016 |
| M. Koivu | 400th Career NHL Assist | November 21, 2016 |
| J. Spurgeon | 100th Career NHL Assist | December 2, 2016 |
| K. Gabriel | 1st Career NHL Assist 1st Career NHL Point | December 7, 2016 |
| E. Staal | 800th Career NHL Point | December 11, 2016 |
| C. Coyle | 300th Career NHL Game | December 15, 2016 |
| J. Zucker | 200th Career NHL Game | December 20, 2016 |
| J. Spurgeon | 400th Career NHL Game | December 22, 2016 |
| J. Brodin | 300th Career NHL Game | January 5, 2017 |
| M. Koivu | 800th Career NHL Game | January 5, 2017 |
| C. Folin | 100th Career NHL Game | January 19, 2017 |
| M. Dumba | 200th Career NHL Game | January 26, 2017 |
| Z. Parise | 800th Career NHL Game | January 26, 2017 |
| M. Granlund | 1st Career NHL Hat Trick | February 4, 2017 |
| G. Olofsson | 1st Career NHL Assist 1st Career NHL Point | February 12, 2017 |
| J. Zucker | 100th Career NHL Point | February 18, 2017 |
| M. Koivu | 600th Career NHL Point | February 18, 2017 |
| M. Granlund | 300th Career NHL Game | February 27, 2017 |
| C. Stewart | 300th Career NHL Point | February 28, 2017 |
| R. White | 300th Career NHL Game | March 9, 2017 |
| M. Hanzal | 200th Career NHL Assist | March 10, 2017 |
| C. Coyle | 100th Career NHL Assist | March 10, 2017 |
| R. Suter | 900th Career NHL Game | March 16, 2017 |
| E. Staal | 1,000th Career NHL Game | March 19, 2017 |
| J. Pominville | 900th Career NHL Game | March 30, 2017 |
| M. Granlund | 200th Career NHL Point | April 2, 2017 |

## Transactions

The Wild have been involved in the following transactions during the 2016–17 season.

### Trades

| Date | Details | Details |
| February 1, 2017 (2017-02-01) | To Ottawa Senators Marc Hagel | To Minnesota WildFuture considerations |
| February 26, 2017 (2017-02-26) | To Arizona Coyotes 1st-round pick in 2017 2nd-round pick in 2018 Conditional 4th-round pick in 2019 Grayson Downing | To Minnesota WildMartin Hanzal Ryan White 4th-round pick in 2017 |
| February 27, 2017 (2017-02-27) | To Arizona Coyotes Teemu Pulkkinen | To Minnesota Wild Future considerations |

### Player signings

| Date | Player | Contract terms (in U.S. dollars) |
| June 29, 2016 (2016-06-29) | Jason Zucker | 2 years, $4 million |
| June 30, 2016 (2016-06-30) | Zac Dalpe | 1 year, $600,000 |
| June 30, 2016 (2016-06-30) | Tyler Graovac | 2 year, $1.25 million |
| July 5, 2016 (2016-07-05) | Darcy Kuemper | 1 year, $1.55 million |
| July 11, 2016 (2016-07-11) | Zach Palmquist | 1 year, $660,000 |
| July 25, 2016 (2016-07-25) | Jordan Schroeder | 1 year, $650,000 |
| July 28, 2016 (2016-07-28) | Matt Dumba | 2 years, $5.1 million |
| August 26, 2016 (2016-08-26) | Gustav Bouramman | 3 years, $2.4 million entry-level contract |
| February 2, 2017 (2017-02-02) | Alex Stalock | 2 years, $1.3 million contract extension |
| March 23, 2017 (2017-03-23) | Luke Kunin | 3 years, $4.275 million entry-level contract |
| April 10, 2017 (2017-04-10) | Carson Soucy | 3 years, $1.85 million entry-level contract |

## Draft picks

Below are the Minnesota Wild's selections at the 2016 NHL Entry Draft, held on June 24–25, 2016 at the First Niagara Center in Buffalo.
| Round | # | Player | Pos | Nationality | College/Junior/Club team (League) |
| 1 | 15 | Luke Kunin | C | United States | Wisconsin Badgers (Big Ten) |
| 4 | 106 | Brandon Duhaime | RW | United States | Tri-City Storm (USHL) |
| 7 | 196 | Dmitry Sokolov | RW | Russia | Sudbury Wolves (OHL) |
| 7 | 204 | Brayden Chizen | D | Canada | Kelowna Rockets (WHL) |

### Draft notes

* The Minnesota Wild's second-round pick went to the Chicago Blackhawks as the result of a trade on June 24, 2016 that sent Andrew Shaw to Montreal in exchange for a second-round pick in 2016 (39th overall) and this pick.
    Montreal previously acquired this pick as the result of a trade on July 1, 2014 that sent Josh Gorges to Buffalo in exchange for this pick.
       Buffalo previously acquired this pick as the result of a trade on March 5, 2014 that sent Matt Moulson and Cody McCormick to Minnesota in exchange for Torrey Mitchell, Winnipeg's second-round pick in 2014 and this pick.
The Minnesota Wild's third-round pick went to the Nashville Predators as the result of a trade on June 20, 2016 that sent Jimmy Vesey to Buffalo in exchange for this pick.
    Buffalo previously acquired this pick as the result of a trade on February 29, 2016 that sent Jamie McGinn to Anaheim in exchange for this pick (being conditional at the time of the trade). The condition – Buffalo will receive a third-round pick in 2016 if Anaheim does not qualify for the 2016 Western Conference Final – was converted on April 27, 2016 when Anaheim was eliminated from the 2016 Stanley Cup playoffs.
       Anaheim previously acquired this pick as the result of a trade on June 26, 2015 that sent Kyle Palmieri to New Jersey in exchange for Florida's second-round pick in 2015 and this pick (being conditional at the time of the trade). The condition – Anaheim will receive the higher of either Florida or Minnesota's third-round pick in 2016. – was converted on April 24, 2016 when Minnesota was eliminated from the 2016 Stanley Cup playoffs ensuring that the Wild's pick would be higher than Florida's.
          New Jersey previously acquired this pick as the result of a trade on February 26, 2015 that sent Jaromir Jagr to Florida in exchange for a second-round pick in 2015 and this pick.
             Florida previously acquired this pick as the result of a trade on February 24, 2015 that sent Sean Bergenheim and a seventh-round pick in 2016 to Minnesota in exchange for this pick.
* The Minnesota Wild's fifth-round pick went to the Boston Bruins as the result of a trade on June 27, 2015 that sent a fifth-round pick in 2015 to Minnesota in exchange for this pick.
* The Minnesota Wild's sixth-round pick went to the Calgary Flames as the result of a trade on February 29, 2016 that sent David Jones to Minnesota in exchange for Niklas Backstrom and this pick.
* The Florida Panthers' seventh-round pick went to the Minnesota Wild as the result of a trade on February 24, 2015 that sent a third-round pick in 2016 to Florida in exchange for Sean Bergenheim and this pick.