By Clark Kent
Minnesota Wild owner Craig Leipold announced on Tuesday afternoon that General Manager Paul Fenton has been released of his duties. This announcement came as a surprise due to the fact that there is only about one month left in the off-season. In his absence, the Assistant General Manager Tom Kurvers, will be the acting General Manager until a replacement is hired.
Fenton was General Manager for only 14 months. In his time, he made controversial trades with players Charlie Coyle, Mikael Granlund, and Nino Niederreiter. In his short time as a General Manager, Fenton was one of the most active General Managers the Wild have ever had.
The decision to fire Fenton was a well thought out decision that took a lot of thinking to carry out. Leipold commented, “There was no final straw. This is something I’ve been thinking about and began to pull the onion back within our organization and in hockey ops. There was absolutely no main or big issue, it was just a lot of smaller issues.”
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