DALLAS — Jim Rutherford, very possibly the most accessible and chatty general manager in all of professional sports, bolted for the exits at American Airlines Arena moments after the 2018 NHL Draft concluded.



He didn’t stop to speak with the assembled media, which is the like Sidney Crosby being the first guy to depart the ice following practice. Rutherford declined comment for a very simple reason: His work is far from finished, so much so, that he didn’t have much to verbalize.



Rutherford arrived in Dallas looking to make a deal and left 48 hours later with the same intention.



While the Penguins are not locked in on one player — they wish to add at least one forward and one defenseman to their roster this summer, perhaps more than one forward — multiple sources have confirmed that a player on Rutherford’s wish list is Hurricanes forward Jeff Skinner. The Athletic’s Pierre LeBrun first reported that the Penguins were...