The trade deadline is in a month, but the Wild’s nine-day All-Star break and subsequent bye week arrived Wednesday night following Minnesota’s 4-2 win over the lowly Detroit Red Wings, and now everybody’s curious what Bill Guerin’s thinking.



So, The Athletic asked him earlier this homestand, one in which the Wild took three of four victories but did sustain a damaging defeat by blowing a late lead en route to a regulation loss Monday night against the Florida Panthers.



In a league full of three-point games and the Wild sitting five points back of a playoff spot, there may come a point soon where Guerin will have to start eating into this roster and making changes as the Feb. 24 trade deadline nears.



The players know so, too.



You could sense the nerves during the first period of an everything-to-lose game against a 12-win, absolutely terrible Red Wings’ team once the Wild fell behind 2-1 off a couple pucks that deflected...