The Minnesota Wild aren't wasting any time trying to fill their now-vacant general manager position.

After the team fired Paul Fenton on Tuesday after only one season as GM, Wild owner Craig Leipold and team president Matt Majka have already interviewed Ron Hextall and Peter Chiarelli for the job, sources told The Athletic's Michael Russo.

The process is in its early stages and the interviews do not mean either candidate is a front-runner, the sources added.

Hextall served as GM of the Philadelphia Flyers from May 2014 until his firing in November 2018. Chiarelli spent nearly four years as general manager of the Edmonton Oilers before he was axed in January. He won the Stanley Cup in the same role with the Boston Bruins in 2011.

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