Eric Fehr has agreed to a one-year, $1 million contract with the Minnesota Wild.

The unrestricted free agent recorded three goals and an assist in 18 games last season with the Toronto Maple Leafs and San Jose Sharks and played in 34 games with the San Diego Gulls of the American Hockey League where he had 17 goals and 11 assists.

The 32-year-old Winkler native, who had a goal and an assist in 10 playoff games with the Sharks this spring, has 206 points in 580 career NHL games with the Washington Capitals, Winnipeg Jets, Pittsburgh Penguins, Toronto and San Jose.

Fehr was a member of the Penguins Stanley Cup championship team in 2016 and won a Calder Cup with the Hershey Bears in 2006.

The former Western Hockey League Player of the Year with the Brandon Wheat Kings was selected by Washington in the first round (18th overall) of the 2003 NHL Entry Draft.


photo courtesy Ray Peters