Update: Dustin Penner, a player the Wild's at least shown interest in, was traded to LA for a first, conditonal third that can become a second and prospect. Minnesota was obviously not going there.

Wild will make one minor-league move in a few minutes. That's it, it appears.

Afternoon.

Right this moment, we're 86 minutes from the trade deadline and I'm told that things are "pretty quiet right now" in the Wild war room.

Heck, all's quiet in the league. That's what I wrote about in my Sunday column. With the amount of activity leading up to the deadline, how few teams are completely out of the playoff race (few sellers) and how sub-par July 1's free-agent crop is, it all indicated a slow deadline.

Things usually pick up as 2 o'clock rolls around, but I don't see any wow things on the horizon leaguewide.

Three trades so far, only one even worth reading about. Columbus acquired Sami Lepisto and Scottie Upshall from Phoenix for the Jackets' first-ever draft pick, Rusty Kesla.

Unless the Wild's willing to play short a body tonight, it may not give up a player on its roster. Right now, it has no extra players here.

One update: I've confirmed through sources that the Wild has zero interest in Jason Arnott, and rightfully so after he unbelievably told the Newark Star Ledger that he told Devils GM Lou Lamoriello Sunday night he'd be interested in going to a team that is assured of a playoff spot, not one fighting to make it.

Well, I guess that takes the West out, eh? Would you want a guy, by the way, that wants to dictate he doesn't want to go to a team fighting for a spot. Sounds like somebody I want infiltrating the Wild's room.

I believe there is mild interest in Zenon Konopka, but right now the Islanders want a second-round pick, and even if the Wild owned its second, is a fourth-liner from the Islanders worth the same price St. Louis got from Buffalo for top-6 forward Brad Boyes? So I'd suspect the price will come down, and then we'll see if the Wild even really wants him over other teams, like, reportedly Anaheim.

As for Guillaume Latendresse, coach Todd Richards confirmed he did suffer a "little setback" in practice yesterday.

So the Wild "kept him off the ice today and then we'll have to reevaluate. There was some pain yesterday." I asked Richards about Latendresse being the team saying all along he'd be its trade deadline pickup (which I've been bigtime skeptical of all along just watching him skate and his conditioning is not close) and Richards quipped, "Still is the pickup, but our trade deadline's going to get delayed somewhat. But he's still a huge acquisition for us once we get him into our lineup." I asked Richards if he's still confident Latendresse will eventually return, and he said, "Absolutely." Lines tonight barring trade: Brunette-Cullen-Miettinen Bouchard-Brodziak-Havlat Nystrom-Madden-Clutterbuck Kobasew-Peters-Staubitz Cam Barker (upper) is still hurt. Mikko Koivu was seeing the hand specialist this morning and the Wild was hoping for good news, Richards said. He's not skating right now for precautionary reasons (slip and fall on broken finger). More later