Wild Should Kick Tires on a Jack Hughes Trade

Minnesota does not need to land Jack Hughes to make noise here, but it absolutely needs to know what it would cost. When a player of that caliber even enters the conversation, front offices stop pretending they are just “doing homework” and start mapping out the pain. The Wild have to weigh the fantasy of a true franchise center against the very real price tag that usually comes with one, and that is where this gets interesting.