DALLAS — With the first round of the NHL draft approaching Friday night, all Wild fan eyes will be on Paul Fenton to see if he has anything — or a couple things — up his sleeve to potentially shake up a roster that has suffered three consecutive first-round exits.



And, what may be scary to some fans, it looks like there’s nobody on the team he’s afraid to trade.



Multiple NHL executives tell The Athletic that pending restricted free agent Jason Zucker and fellow forwards Nino Niederreiter and Charlie Coyle have found their names smack in the middle of persistent trade talk. Zucker, arguably the Wild’s fastest forward, scored a career-high 33 goals last season and had 22 goals the year before with a plus-34, tied for the league’s best. Niederreiter and Coyle battled injuries last season and had down years, but Niederreiter specifically is a three-time 20-goal scorer and a summer removed from signing a five-year...