Insider names Metropolitan Division crew eyeing Kirill Kaprizov most aggressively

[ad_1] The Minnesota Wild are at a crossroads with their celebrity winger and face of the franchise.

It is now well-known that Kirill Kaprizov rejected their historic eight-year, $128 million extension provide, and that might end in troublesome choices having to be made shifting ahead.

If the Wild nonetheless consider they'll lengthen Kaprizov, then normal supervisor Invoice Guerin has to proceed doing no matter is important to work issues out. Then again, ought to they really feel that Kaprizov has one foot out the door, then gauging the marketplace for commerce presents is the route Minnesota should take.

We nonetheless do not know which means that is all going to go, although Wild insider Michael Russo is imploring us to keep watch over the Carolina Hurricanes ought to Kirill Kaprizov turn out to be accessible. Right here was what he needed to say on the latest episode of the "DFO Rundown" podcast.

"They're the one crew that I feel is extraordinarily motivated to attempt to get Kirill Kaprizov there and could be keen to pay him to. So if Kirill is motivated by cash and a crew that has an opportunity to win, and for the foreseeable future, they are a crew that the Minnesota Wild would possibly speak commerce with," Russo mentioned.

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— Each day Faceoff (@DailyFaceoff) September 16, 2025 The 28-year-old is, after all, poised to enter the ultimate season of the five-year, $45 million contract extension he signed with the Wild again in 2021.

May Svechnikov be a return piece? If the Carolina Hurricanes try and commerce for Kirill Kaprizov, it could take an absolute haul of a return bundle to get the Wild to budge.

The Canes have one of many higher prospect swimming pools in hockey, although it should require extra than simply picks and prospects to land a top-10 participant within the league. Based on Michael Russo, star winger Andrei Svechnikov might be a bit that Minnesota would search in any take care of Carolina.

"The one factor I will say, and I do not wish to put the cart earlier than the horse right here, is that the blokes the Wild would possibly need there most likely have some no-move safety. I am pondering of men like Aho. However one individual that does not is Svechnikov. So, he isn't Kaprizov, however that might be anyone that possibly there's a little bit marriage there to start out a little bit bundle," Russo mentioned.

The 25-year-old Svechnikov has 4 years remaining on his eight-year, $62 million contract signed with the Hurricanes in 2021. He is had damage points and ups and downs in manufacturing, however there is not any denying the expertise and upside of the previous third-overall decide from 2018.

As Russo mentions, he is no Kirill Kaprizov, although Andrei Svechnikov will surely be an excellent piece to start out with in a return bundle if it will get to that time for the Minnesota Wild.