The Wild signed Hill to a one-year, $475,000 contract with a chance to make up to 850K in bonuses. I talked to him this afternoon and he completely denies using steroids.

The steroid, boldenone, which is mostly used to treat horses and often used by bodybuilders to build muscle mass, was found into his system. He says he’s since taken a lie detector test, which he passed, and had another drug test at an independent lab, which he passed.

I’ll write more later, but other interesting stuff, Risebrough said this move might allow him to trade one of his defensemen.

Couple other things, Wild trainer Mike Vogt is flying to Slovakia Sunday to work on Marian Gaborik’s groins. Also, Tom Lynn told me five different agents called the Wild in the past week to try to get the Wild to sign players to an offer sheet.

Risebrough told me one was Steve Bartlett, Thomas Vanek’s agent. Risebrough said he asked Bartlett why he would do that if they never work. Risebrough would know. He tried to sign Teemu Selanne to an offer sheet years and years ago and that was matched by Winnipeg.

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