When Minnesota Wild owner Craig Leipold changed general managers this spring
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New GM Paul Fenton took the Wild into the first day of free agency by making several of those minor adjustments, highlighted by an enhanced third pairing of
defensemen and more lower-line depth for a team that has made the playoffs six
straight times but has not advanced past the second round in 15 years.
As the market opened on Sunday, the Wild announced agreements with former Dallas defenseman Greg Pateryn (three years, $6.75 million), restricted free
agent defenseman Nick Seeler (three years, $2.175 million) and forwards J.T.
Brown (two years, $1.375 million), Eric Fehr ($1 million) and Matt Hendricks
($700,000).
The 6-foot-3
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goal, blocked shots and hits. The 28-year-old is a right-handed shot and a solid
penalty-killer who played previously for Montreal. Pateryn will likely playing
alongside Seeler, who had four assists and a plus-10 rating in 22 games last
season in a productive NHL debut with the Wild. He played in all five playoff
games, too.
Fehr and Hendricks both previously played for Wild coach Bruce Boudreau with Washington, with the 32-year-old Fehr finishing last season with San Jose and
the 37-year-old Hendricks playing for Winnipeg. Fehr has 106 goals and 100
assists in 580 career NHL games. Hendricks has 54 goals, 59 assists and 1,358
hits in 581 career NHL games and has appeared in 39 playoff games.
With Matt Cullen departing as a free agent to return to Pittsburgh
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candidates to skate next to him. The son of former Minnesota Vikings running
back Ted Brown and a 2011 NCAA champion with Minnesota Duluth, Brown split last
season with Tampa Bay and Anaheim. He has 20 goals and 44 assists in 309 career
games.
Brown (Rosemount), Hendricks (Blaine) and Seeler (Eden Prairie) are all Minnesota natives.
Rapper Meek Mill walked out of prison Tuesday after Pennsylvania’s highest court ordered him freed while he appeals decade-old gun and drug
convictions.
Following a five-month campaign by his supporters to get him out, the state Supreme Court directed a Philadelphia judge who had jailed him to immediately
issue an order releasing him on unsecured bail.
Mill was sentenced in November to two to four years in prison for probation violations.
He was taken from the prison by helicopter to Philadelphia, where he rang the ceremonial bell at the start of Game 5 of the Philadelphia 76ers-Miami Heat
playoff series.
”Welcome home Meek Mill,” said the game announcer to the rapper, who was sitting courtside next to actor Kevin Hart and Sixers co-owner Michael
Rubin.
Before the game, Mill visited privately with the Sixers in their locker room.
A team of lawyers and public relations consultants had waged an all-out battle to get him freed, leveling fierce criticism at the judge as a stream of
high-powered figures and celebrities visited him in jail outside Philadelphia
just hours before the Supreme Court ruling.
Mill issued a statement saying the past months had been ”a nightmare
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Jim Kenney.
”Although I’m blessed to have the resources to fight this unjust situation, I understand that many people of color across the country don’t have that luxury
and I plan to use my platform to shine a light on those issues,” Mill said.
He said he would now focus his attention on getting his convictions overturned, and that he looks forward to resuming his music career.
Earlier this month, in a major victory for Mill, prosecutors said they agreed with his lawyers that he should get a new trial because of questions raised
about the arresting officer. The now-retired officer was among a list of police
officers the prosecutor’s office has sought to keep off the witness stand in
cases across the city because of credibility questions.
A spokesman for District Attorney Larry Krasner said late Tuesday that the Supreme Court’s decision on Meek Mill’s release was consistent with the position
taken by their office.
Mill’s attorney
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”Meek was unjustly convicted and should not have spent a single day in jail,” Tacopina said.
In an opinion earlier this month, Judge Genece Brinkley, who sent Mill to prison for the probation violations, strongly defended herself against
accusations by the defense she was waging a vendetta against the rapper. She
said the court ”has impartially and without prejudice presided over numerous
proceedings in this matter since 2008.”
The Supreme Court denied a defense request to move the case to another judge, but said the presiding judge could opt to remove herself.
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This story has been corrected to say Mill rang the ceremonial bell at the start of Game 5 of the Philadelphia 76ers-Miami Heat playoff series, not the
start of the playoff series.
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