Wild report: GM Chuck Fletcher plays down trade talks

Chuck Fletcher

Mikael Granlund

FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. -- As the NHL's second-busiest day of the summer approached, Wild general manager Chuck Fletcher insisted that trade talks involving his team have been quiet.

The first round of the NHL draft, held Friday, brings numerous trades every year, a flurry of activity matched only by the start of free agency July 1.

But with little cap space and a roster he has faith in, Fletcher said he doesn't expect to be a major player in trade talks.

"I like our team," Fletcher said.

Even Fletcher, though, surely recognizes that he has said talks were quiet before trades happened.

At the draft two years ago, Fletcher acquired Nino Niederreiter for Cal Clutterbuck…