The Wild are making Paul Fenton’s decision-making easier and easier by the day.



While the general manager may not know yet whether he’s going to sell off pending free agents Eric Staal and maybe more significant players like Mikael Granlund and Jason Zucker later this month, it’s hard to envision the Wild doing anything to convince Fenton that he should actually go spend assets or more of Craig Leipold’s money on anything of substance in advance of the Feb. 25 trade deadline.



Just look at the flaccid display the Wild put forth at Xcel Energy Center on Thursday night.



Facing an Edmonton Oilers team that was winless in six straight and had lost 15 of their previous 20 games, the Wild looked like they were going through the motions during a sleepy effort in front of thousands of home fans who white-knuckled their way down to St. Paul in a snowstorm.



They looked slow. They looked small. And they looked weak as they continuously...