The Minnesota Wild avoided an arbitration hearing with forward, Stephane Veilleux, on Saturday, by signing him to a 1-year deal. The deal is reportedly worth around $737,500, which will then take him into unrestricted free agency for next summer.Veilleux, 26, played in 77 games for the Wild last season, scoring 11 goals and adding 7 assists. This doesn't give him much pool value heading into the coming season and his potential doesn't seem to be much higher, although his numbers have slightly gotten better over the last three seasons. Don't be in a big hurry to snap him up, however. You may want to wait until the mid-season mark, before you make any judgements.
| Forwards | Defense | Goaltenders |
| Marian Gaborik | Brent Burns | Niklas Backstrom |
| Andrew Brunette | Marek Zidlicky | Josh Harding |
| Mikko Koivu | Kim Johnsson | |
| Eric Belanger | Marc-Andre Bergeron | |
| Antti Miettinen | Kurtis Foster | |
| Owen Nolan | Nick Schultz | |
| Mark Parrish | Martin Skoula | |
| James Sheppard | ||
| Stephane Veilleux | ||
| Derek Boogaard |
The inclusion of Veilleux to the line-up does give the Wild 19 players signed on for next season at a salary cap hit of $47.5 million. That puts the team in the middle of the pack for salary cap numbers and the only major signing left to do will be restricted free agent forward, Pierre-Marc Bouchard, who is also up for an arbitration hearing this summer.
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