Cuma Among Wild Cuts

On Sunday, the Minnesota Wild made a large number of training camp cuts, which included defenseman Tyler Cuma, who I had listed as a possibility of being a good pool defenseman, if he had indeed made the team for opening night.

The Wild blueline isn't exactly stacked with great talent, but it didn't appear that the 21-year old blueliner did enough to impress the coaching staff, hence his demotion on Sunday.  With that, his projection gets dropped down to something more that resembles a call-up during the year and he should likely be avoided at the draft this year.

Forwards		Defense		Goalies
Mikko Koivu	65	Marek Zidlicky	40	Niklas Backstrom	60
Dany Heatley	55	Jared Spurgeon	25	Josh Harding	30
Pierre-Marc Bouchard	50	Mike Lundin	15
Devin Setoguchi	40	Nick Schultz	10
Cal Clutterbuck	40	Clayton Stoner	10
Matt Cullen	35	Greg Zanon	5
Kyle Brodziak	35
Guillaume Latendresse	35
Eric Nystrom	20
Darroll Powe	15
Brad Staubitz	5
Cody Almond	10	Marco Scandella	15
Casey Wellman	10	Justin Falk	10
Brett Bulmer	10	Nate Prosser	10
Colton Gillies	5

I thought I would update the pool projections for the Minnesota Wild, including most players that are still in camp. I don't foresee any of the young players that are left in camp as being big pool prospects this season, so I would be looking at the regular roster players for inspiration this year.