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Minnesota Wild sign Nino Niedereitter to new five-year deal

By Nic Hendrickson

ST. LOUIS, MO - APRIL 19: Nino Niederreiter #22 of the Minnesota Wild shoots the puck against the St. Louis Blues in Game Four of the Western Conference First Round during the 2017 NHL Stanley Cup Playoffs at the Scottrade Center on April 19, 2017 in St. Louis, Missouri. (Photo by Dilip Vishwanat/Getty Images)
ST. LOUIS, MO - APRIL 19: Nino Niederreiter #22 of the Minnesota Wild shoots the puck against the St. Louis Blues in Game Four of the Western Conference First Round during the 2017 NHL Stanley Cup Playoffs at the Scottrade Center on April 19, 2017 in St. Louis, Missouri. (Photo by Dilip Vishwanat/Getty Images) /
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The Minnesota Wild and 24-year-old winger Nino Niedereitter have come to terms on a new five-year deal. The contract will see Niedereitter make $5.25 million per season.

The Minnesota Wild have signed Swiss-born winger Nino Niedereitter to a new five-year, $26.25 million deal.

The deal will see Niedereitter paid $5.25 million per season and does not have any no trade or no movement clauses.

Since arriving in Minnesota, he has steadily improved on his point production, especially from the last season he spent with the New York Islanders when he had only a single point in a 55-game season. Niedereitter has slowly become a very important piece of the Wild’s future.

After being selected with the fifth overall pick of the 2010 NHL Entry Draft, many thought Niedereitter was a draft bust. In 64 games with the Islanders, he only had two goals and one assist, spending most of his time with the Bridgeport Sound Tigers of the AHL.

Niedereitter played his first six games with the Sound Tigers in the 2011-12 season, scoring three goals and adding an assist to his tally. He spent the entire 2012-13 season with them, scoring 28 goals and adding 22 assists to his 38 penalty minutes in 74 games.

During the 2013 NHL Draft, the Wild and Islanders struck a deal. Minnesota sent Cal Clutterbuck and a third round pick, 70th overall, to the New York Islanders for Niedereitter. That 70th overall pick ended up being goaltender Eamon McAdam, who has yet to play a single game in the NHL. Clutterbuck has played in 292 games for the Isles since the trade, scoring 39 goals and adding 39 assists during that time.

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Niedereitter has seen his point total increase in each of his four seasons in Minnesota. He had 36 points in 2013-14, 37 points in 2014-15, 43 in 2015-17 and 57 points last season in the form of 25 goals and 32 assists.

What’s even more impressive for Niedereitter is that the analytics point to the upward trend in point production not being any sort of fluke. Niedereitter led the Minnesota roster last season with a 7.96 Relative Corsi-For percentage.

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