Wild signing free agent Yakov Trenin to 4-year, $14 million contract: Sources

For a month, Minnesota Wild president of hockey operations and general manager Bill Guerin has been indicating that adding players who can help the team rediscover a hard-nosed, defensive-minded identity would be more of a priority this offseason than adding a second-line winger. Well, two days after trading for Boston Bruins bottom-six forward Jakub Lauko, the Wild are signing left wing/center Yakov Trenin — one of the most physical and solid penalty-killing forwards in free agency — to a four-year, …