A few days after Jordan Schroeder was informed by the Wild that the team didn't plan to tender him a qualifying offer, the Wild are giving him a chance by sending him to the Columbus Blue Jackets for minor-leaguer Dante Salituro.
If given a qualifying offer by Monday, Schroeder, 26, will be a restricted free agent rather than an unrestricted free agent.
The 2009 first-round pick by the Vancouver Canucks is headed to his third team. He scored 11 goals and 25 points in 88 games over parts of three seasons for the Wild. He scored 13 points in 37 games this season yet didn't play in the playoffs.
Salituro, 20, is a 5-9, 175-pound right-shot center that will be a depth player in Iowa. He played 12 games in the ECHL last season and finished with the OHL London Knights. He scored 37 and 38 goals his last two full seasons with OHL Ottawa.
He has two years left on a two-way contract that pays him $725,000 in the NHL and $70,000 in the minors, per capfriendly.
