After trading places, Daemon Hunt finds chemistry on Wild blue line

There was no “player to be named later” in the trade, roughly a year ago, that sent defenseman Daemon Hunt to Columbus as part of the package that brought defenseman David Jiricek to Minnesota. Yet here we are, 50 weeks later or so, with Hunt and Jiricek skating as defensive partners on the Wild’s blue line, in the latest example of the wacky things that can happen on the NHL’s transaction wire.

Hunt, who is 23 and lives in Calgary in the summers, played his fifth game for the Wild on Saturday versus Anaheim after spending all but one game last season in the AHL — most of that time with the Columbus minor league team, the Cleveland Monsters. He had one assist in four games coming into the matchup with the Ducks, and had made a favorable impression since cracking the Wild lineup following