When: Friday, 6 p.m.; Saturday, 9 a.m.
Where: First Niagara Center, Buffalo, N.Y.
Format: Round 1, Friday; Rounds 2-7, Saturday.
TV: Friday, NBC Sports Network; Saturday, NHL Network
Wild picks: Four
First round, 15th overall
Fourth round, 106th
Seventh round, 196th and 204th (from Florida).
The Wild traded its second-round pick to Buffalo in the Matt Moulson/Cody McCormick deal, third-round pick to Florida for Sean Bergenheim, fifth-round pick to Boston for a 2015 fifth-round pick that became Kirill Kaprizov; sixth-round pick to Calgary in the David Jones and Niklas Backstrom deal.
First-round order
1. Toronto
2. Winnipeg
3. Columbus
4. Edmonton
5. Vancouver
6. Calgary
7. Arizona
8. Buffalo
9. Montreal
10. Colorado
11. New Jersey
12. Ottawa
13. Carolina
14. Boston
15. Wild
16. Detroit
17. Nashville
18. Philadelphia
19. N.Y. Islanders
20. Arizona (from Rangers)
21. Carolina (from L.A.)
22. Winnipeg (from Chicago)
23. Florida
24. Anaheim
25. Dallas
26. Washington
27. Tampa Bay
28. St. Louis
29. Boston (from San Jose)
30. Anaheim (from Pitt. via Tor.)
Top prospects
Auston Matthews, C
Patrik Laine, RW
Jesse Puljujarvi, RW
Pierre-Luc Dubois, LW
Matthew Tkachuk, LW
Kirill Kaprizov should become the Wild’s franchise scoring leader shortly after the team returns to action on Feb. 26.
