Per the latest Wild insider on the Athletic (link: https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/7158037/2026/03/31/wild-nick-foligno-fight-jessi-pierce-visitation/ ), Stramel is likely to sign the deal, rehab with the team, then be available for the playoffs.

Rieger Lorenz will likely sign a deal this offseason, and Jimmy Clark will go back to school for another year.

11 comments

  1. He broke his ankle, he isn’t going to rehab in 3 weeks and be back for a playoff run.

  2. What’s the logic to burn the year? Is the explanation that stramels camp requires it or else he becomes a free agent?

  4. Off to watch his highlights, since we won’t be able to see him in the playoffs this year. Who knows if he Woild have provided an immediate upgrade over anyone in the playoffs, but would have been sick.

  7. Stramel is 21 years old, and is out of NCAA eligibility. Rookie contracts are only slide eligible (the mechanism that lets teams send a player back to juniors without burning a year) for players 18-19 years old. There’s no signing him without burning a year. If Stramel either graduates or leaves school, by the letter of the CBA he can file paperwork with the league that starts the clock on free agency this summer.

  8. didn’t he like break his ankle? not like a sprain or a twist? anyway he’s wanted to be here, I love a hometown boy, rehabbing with the guys will be good for him and sitting in the press box during your home team’s playoffs is definitely exciting. I’m sure he wishes he could’ve been on the bench but it’s better than nothing.

  9. tried telling everyone a girl i play with broke her ankle and wasn’t even out a month. an ankle breaks can be a shorter heal time than it would sound like it should. sounds like his wasn’t that bad.

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