The State of Hockey is keeping a player in the fold for another year.
On Tuesday, Minnesota Wild general manager Bill Guerin announced the team has re-signed forward Adam Raska to a one-year contract.
Raska is on a two-way contract, with a $775,000 NHL cap hit, and a minor-league salary of $97,500. Raska started the 2023-24 campaign elsewhere, as he was with the San Jose Sharks organization, the team that took the Czechia winger in the seventh round of the 2020 NHL Draft. He was dealt to the Wild in the trade that saw the Sharks receive Calen Addison in early November.
Raska played just five games for Minnesota, appearing in 49 games with the AHL’s Iowa Wild. While in Iowa, he notched three goals and four assists. He has yet to register a point in 13 NHL games. He has played no more than five games in the NHL over the past three seasons.
In 159 AHL games with Iowa and the San Jose Barracuda, the former Rimouski Oceanic product has posted 12 goals and 20 assists.
Raska played parts of two seasons in the Quebec Maritime Junior Hockey League with the Oceanic. In 57 games, he registered 25 goals and 21 assists, including six points in eight games during the 2021 playoffs.
He has also registered his country on a number of occasions. While he had the chance to play on the Under-16 and Under-17 Czech National Teams, Raska made his big-time international debut at the 2019 IIHF Men’s Under-18 World Championship. He ended up appearing on the Czechia roster at the 2020 and 2021 IIHF World Junior Championships, posting an assist in nine games over the two tournaments.
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