Guten Tag!



I’m working on this mailbag from Germany — home of Nico Sturm and Minnesota State’s Parker Tuomie (son of former St. Cloud State and Wisconsin forward Tray Tuomie) — and Austria — home of the great Thomas Vanek.



I spent the past few days in Munich, where I happened to run into Wild amateur scout P.J. Fenton. What are the chances? About the same as when I ran into former Wild assistant coach John Anderson on my first day in Edinburgh a few years ago.



I’m in Salzburg now, then on to Innsbruck, current home of Tyler Spurgeon, big bro to Jared Spurgeon.



Later in my European vacation, I actually may get together with Nino Niederreiter in Lucerne for a quick hello. I was hoping to get together with Kevin Fiala while in Switzerland for a story, but he’s out of the country. He told me at the end of the season he actually lives in Sweden for a chunk of the offseason.



Kudos to you all!



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