Minnesota Wild healthy scratching one of their biggest trade chips, is a trade imminent?

«We had a real good meeting. He knows why he's sitting out tonight,» Evason told the media after the morning skate on Thursday.

"When I think of a team that may have a defenceman available, I think of Matt Dumba and the Minnesota Wild," Dreger said, "There's no question that the Edmonton Oilers and Ottawa Senators have reached out and do have interest in Dumba. Why wouldn't you? He's 28 years old, he's a right-shot defenceman and he's a pending unrestricted free agent."

"The problem from the Wild's standpoint is they need him. They're playing pretty well right now. They're not sure just yet they are ready to move on from Matt Dumba, even though you look into the future and you see the cap issue of the Minnesota Wild But the price would be high and then the Wild would have to hit the market potentially to find someone to replace Matt Dumba."