Since training camp doesn't start for more than two months, the Wild's biggest free-agent pickup had only two things to accomplish on his first day in Minnesota:
1) Find a place to live. 2) Pick a jersey number.
First, Martin Havlat received a phone call from now-former Wild star Marian Gaborik, who not only welcomed him to hockey-mad Minnesota but offered to sell Havlat his posh downtown Minneapolis condo.
"We are talking about," Havlat said, laughing.
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Next objective was figuring out a way to strip No. 24, the number he's worn his entire career, off 6-7 Derek Boogaard.
"I think I will have to call Boogey," Havlat said. "I think he'll be the first guy I will talk to."
Boogaard, without cracking a smile, said he'd consider giving it up "if the price is right."
It must not have been: Havlat will wear No. 14.