Minnesota Wild sign top draft pick
The Minnesota Wild inked 19-year-old winger Benoit Pouliot, the club's top draft pick last year, to a multi-year contract.
Pouliot, the fourth overall pick in the 2005 NHL draft, scored 35 goals and added 30 assists and was a plus-23 in 51 regular-season games for the Ontario Hockey League's Sudbury Wolves this season.
The Alfred, Ont., native was voted the 2005 OHL rookie of the year and won a gold medal at the 2006 world junior hockey championship in Vancouver.
He recently signed an amateur tryout contract with the Houston Aeros of the American Hockey League and will finish the rest of this campaign there before making his NHL debut next season.
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