Kirill Kaprizov: contract talks with Wild, ‘should be all good.’
After a season of great promise and great frustration Minnesota Wild star Kirill Kaprizov disclosed the one thing that will not be a part of his next sparse months is any additional surgery His fifth NHL season was limited to just games due to a midseason lower body ailment that required an operation but after being a serious candidate for league MVP before Christmas he returned to post nine points in six playoff games In the coming days or weeks he will tour back to the small Russian village where he says he feels majority content away from the spotlight that shines so brightly on him in the NHL The warmer months will be spent with friends playing video games hanging out on the water and occasionally fishing something Kaprizov admitted he has never done in Minnesota despite the state s propensity of places to wet a line While he is relaxing more than one Wild fan will be waiting anxiously to see just what Kaprizov s future in red and green may look like The Wild have specific rights to sign Kaprizov to a contract extension on July before he would become an unrestricted free agent a year later At the start of the recently-completed season there was talk that Kaprizov could command million or more per year After what he did on the ice before turning during the playoffs that speculation has inflated to million or more His current contract pays million per year None of those numbers are major to Kaprizov he announced on Sunday in his first postseason meeting with reporters All of his contract matters are in the hands of agent Paul Theofanus and Wild general manager Bill Guerin This is my agent job to talk with Billy But we will see stated Kaprizov I love everything here But it should be all good I don t know what to say Even before Kaprizov s early-season heroics Wild owner Craig Leipold vowed in the preseason that no crew would offer more money or years to the offensive wonder For the competitor to say things should be all good with the Wild are encouraging words but none of it matters until a contract is signed In the meantime he will be back in his small town home living a kind of reclusive life which sounds similar to summertime in Bemidji or Brainerd or other small towns that Wild fans know well Last year I just stayed home all the time I don t go anywhere I don t like it he noted I like staying in my village don t see a lot of people just stuff like this It s like simple life there Just do nothing Just go with the friends see friends go practicing then go fishing or something camping Simple simple Stay with family Maybe go vacation with family if my family want But I don t I just want to stay home He also mentioned that Minnesota has become like a second home over the past five years Wild fans are definitely hoping he wants to stay home when the contract extension offer comes Related Articles Wild s Gustav Nyquist talks of small margins after costly offside Six moments that defined the Wild s first-round exit Shipley With season over Wild fans move to Kirill Kaprizov watch Wild s Fleury among three Masterton Award finalists Ryan Hartman s playoff resurgence a bright spot for disappointed Wild
