Wild Not Making Their Best Pieces Available for Larkin

Minnesota is not treating this as a blank-check moment, and that tells you plenty about how it views its own roster. The Wild are reportedly not putting key players on the table for Larkin, which is the kind of stance that can shut down a trade talk fast or force another club to get creative. In this league, the first team to blink usually pays extra, and Minnesota sounds like it is trying not to be that team.