Havlat already feeling at home

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.

Next objective was figuring out a way to strip No. 24, the number he’s worn his entire career, off 6-7 Derek Boogaard.

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