The first season that is post-Gaborik for the Wild has included a few new faces to the signed line-up. The Wild have added Martin Havlat up front to take Gaborik's spot, while Shane Hnidy and Greg Zanon will man a couple blueline posts and it looks like Wade Dubielewicz will take over the back-up keeper job from Josh Harding, who may have priced himself out of the market for Minnesota.It's a whole new dynamic with Havlat in the line-up instead of Gaborik, but it will be a while before we find out if the chemistry is where the team wants to be.
| Forwards | Defense | Goaltenders |
| Martin Havlat | Marek Zidlicky | Niklas Backstrom |
| Mikko Koivu | Brent Burns | Wade Dubielewicz |
| Andrew Brunette | Kim Johnsson | |
| Pierre-Marc Bouchard | Shane Hnidy | |
| Owen Nolan | Greg Zanon | |
| Antti Miettinen | Nick Schultz | |
| Eric Belanger | ||
| James Sheppard | ||
| Cal Clutterbuck | ||
| Colton Gillies | ||
| Derek Boogaard |
Currently, the Wild are sitting quite comfortably with their cap number, which places them with 19 players at $49.9 million. The team already has a number of their best players already signed on, not to mention a lot of depth, so the remaining depth can actually be middle-of-the-road type players that can possibly swing a game into their favour. The Wild also have to deal with both Kyle Brodziak and Josh Harding, who are both RFAs this summer. Brodziak, acquired from Edmonton this summer, is heading to arbitration and should be a good fit with the Wild, while Harding, as mentioned before, may be used as good trade bait.
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