Nico Sturm can do the math, so he knows it’ll be tough for him to make the Wild out of training camp.



But the 24-year-old center who signed with the Wild last spring out of Clarkson University is doing everything in his power to show management and the coaching staff how committed he is to turning himself into a fulltime NHLer sooner rather than later.



It has very much been noticed already by the people who matter that the native of Germany is sticking around Minnesota for most of the offseason to work out and skate. And then when it came to development camp last month, the Wild’s oldest prospect may have been their hardest worker and greatest role model despite being the lone player with two games of NHL service in his repertoire.



“I’m telling you, he worked just as hard here as he did in those two games at the end of the year,” coach Bruce Boudreau said after Sturm’s team won the 3-on-3 tournament to cap development...