Wild predicted to sign $55 million forward from Minnesota as huge free agent pickup

Especially if the Minnesota Wild move on from Marco Rossi, they could use another star forward.

One guy available is from Minnesota and could be the perfect fit.

Vancouver's Brock Boeser is predicted by The Daily Faceoff to sign with Minnesota. AFP Analytics projects him to get approximately $55 million over seven years.

"It’s more than just the hometown Minnesota connection," The Daily Faceoff's Matt Larkin writes.  Boeser becomes a UFA just as the Wild are sliding out from under the worst of their buyout penalties for Zach Parise and Ryan Suter. General manager Bill Guerin finally gets to be a player with his cap space. Local boy Brock Nelson is off the board, and while Boeser isn’t a center, he’d still bring welcome secondary goal scoring behind Kirill Kaprizov and Matt Boldy. Boeser averages 30 goals per 82 games in his career and has played at least 74 games in three consecutive seasons, dispelling some of the concerns about his durability. The Wild had the 25^th-best shooting percentage in the NHL this season at 9.93 percent; Boeser’s career mark of 14.1 would be welcome."

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Boeser is coming off a season with 25 goals and 25 assists with the Canucks in 75 games.

He's 28 years old and has spent all nine seasons with Vancouver.

In all, he's had 204 goals and 230 assists through 554 NHL games. 

Boeser is from Burnsville, Minnesota. He played his college hockey at North Dakota.

And maybe, just maybe, he's coming home.

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