Money, money, money, money... Money!

 Produce, or begone! ye highly paid sports and media stars... Something about bang for the buck, I think.

The Minnesota Wild are going to be buying out both defenseman Ryan Suter and forward Zach Parise from their contracts, according to Michael Russo of The Athletic.

Both players have four years remaining on their 13-year contract they signed all the way back in the summer of 2012. They will both be immediately free agents on Tuesday, and are able to sign with any other team this summer on brand new contracts.

For the players, they will be getting a $6.7-million paycheck for the next four years, while the team will be dinged with $2.371 million, $6.371 million and $7.371 million cap hits in the next four years for each player, then two individual $833,333 cap hits the four years after that.

This signals a massive change in the Wild locker room and the leadership core. Moving on from their two prized free agents and letting them play somewhere else will give the Wild some cap room and ability to protect players like Matt Dumba and Jordan Greenway in the upcoming expansion draft.