Wild’s Larkin Push Clears Its First Real Hurdle

Minnesota is already making the kind of quiet progress that front offices love to leak and fans love to obsess over. The Dylan Larkin angle has enough smoke around it to keep the rumor mill humming, but the Wild still have to clear the messy part that usually decides these things. That is where the real negotiating starts, because in this league the first hurdle is rarely the hardest one.