Overview
- The Minnesota Wild announced on Monday that they hired Dan MacKinnon as assistant director of amateur scouting and made three other staff changes to their hockey operations.
- MacKinnon will report to amateur scouting director Judd Brackett and focus on evaluating draft-eligible players and identifying prospects after a decade with the New Jersey Devils and previous scouting roles with Pittsburgh and Nashville.
- The team hired Janik Beichler as a European amateur scout to deepen coverage of international prospects, drawing on his Elite Prospects work and seven years scouting Europe for the Spokane Chiefs.
- Former NHL defenseman Alex Goligoski was promoted from player development advisor to player development coach to provide direct on-ice and position-specific work with Wild prospects.
- Elizabeth Hudson joins as executive assistant to the president/GM to support day-to-day hockey operations, a change that, together with the scouting hires, signals the club is prioritizing draft evaluation and in-house development ahead of future drafts.