{"id":487784,"date":"2026-03-05T22:12:21","date_gmt":"2026-03-05T22:12:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/487784\/"},"modified":"2026-03-05T22:12:21","modified_gmt":"2026-03-05T22:12:21","slug":"nhl-trade-minnesota-wild-add-blueline-depth-acquire-jeff-petry-from-panthers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/487784\/","title":{"rendered":"NHL TRADE: Minnesota Wild Add Blueline Depth, Acquire Jeff Petry From Panthers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/img\/b\/R29vZ2xl\/AVvXsEgFkRH-TEi_IbaRLrtdbiDLD5-A_IQ0i1R8nMYsMYldk23ci2JE5Ep3wFNwvSjwFUkCMG18LOX85PKG6Kxvj_SQMofq4plriHfXlSGDe3UbSJEkkEtyIoD3aOn8eDSUj73QJZlzXSPkHefUL-rFHMn7I3eGGMOnlIRKiTDMI9Oj89_3QPv5g3xtcupOrgtm\/s4000\/USATSI_27962364.jpg\" style=\"margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Minnesota Wild defenceman Jeff Petry skates while a member of the Florida Panthers\" border=\"0\" data-original-height=\"2667\" data-original-width=\"4000\" height=\"266\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/USATSI_27962364.jpg\" title=\"Minnesota Wild defenceman Jeff Petry\" width=\"400\"\/><\/a><br \/>\u00a0The<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nhltraderumors.me\/search\/label\/Florida%20Panthers\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"> Florida Panthers<\/a> have entered the seller&#8217;s market as we approach the trade deadline, sending veteran defenseman Jeff Petry to the Minnesota Wild for a conditional 7th-round pick.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">We have acquired Jeff Petry from the Florida Panthers.<\/p>\n<p>\ud83d\udcf0 Full detail \u00bb <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/I6aC7YxNEo\" rel=\"nofollow\">https:\/\/t.co\/I6aC7YxNEo<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/NRBcG3JwcV\" rel=\"nofollow\">pic.twitter.com\/NRBcG3JwcV<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Minnesota Wild (@mnwild) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/mnwild\/status\/2029656875470360970?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">March 5, 2026<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The pick has a unique condition on it: It becomes a fifth-round selection in the 2026 NHL Draft if Minnesota wins two playoff rounds and Petry plays in 50% or more of the Wild\u2019s playoff games during those first two rounds.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Petry, a strong, sizeable two-way d-man, is a solid puck-mover with a big shot. He was a regular contributor in triple-digits in hits and blocked shots throughout most of his career, though at age 38, he doesn&#8217;t throw the body around quite as much in the past couple of seasons.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>His offense has also taken a big drop-off, with no goals and eight assists through 58 games. He&#8217;s now a depth defenseman on the third pairing, but his veteran know-how will be a nice add for the Wild. He&#8217;s on a one-year deal at the league minimum of $775,000.<\/p>\n<p>The 6&#8217;3&#8243;, 207-pound right-shot D, in 1,039 regular-season games, has recorded\u00a01,745 shots on goal, 1,616 blocked shots and 2,090 hits.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Petry was originally selected by the Edmonton Oilers in the second round (#45 overall) back in the 2006 NHL Draft.<\/p>\n<p>Photo: \u00a9 David Kirouac-Imagn Images<\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u00a0The Florida Panthers have entered the seller&#8217;s market as we approach the trade deadline, sending veteran defenseman Jeff&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":487785,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[462],"tags":[5,181,4,465,466,550,106,60,107,549,548,546,547],"class_list":{"0":"post-487784","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nhl-draft","8":"tag-hockey","9":"tag-hockey-news","10":"tag-nhl","11":"tag-nhl-draft","12":"tag-nhl-entry-draft","13":"tag-nhl-free-agency","14":"tag-nhl-news","15":"tag-nhl-playoffs","16":"tag-nhl-rumors","17":"tag-nhl-teams","18":"tag-nhl-trade-deadline","19":"tag-nhl-trade-rumors","20":"tag-nhl-trades"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nhl\/116178869127158914","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/487784","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=487784"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/487784\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/487785"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=487784"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=487784"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=487784"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}