US EditionWild GM Bill Guerin aims for Kirill Kaprizov extension and aggressive summer spending with cap constraints gone
- The Minnesota Wild entered a critical 2025 offseason aiming to extend Kirill Kaprizov and spend aggressively without salary cap constraints.
- The team had faced two years of salary cap limits after buying out Zach Parise and Ryan Suter’s contracts, which accounted for 17% of the cap most recently.
- Kirill Kaprizov, who has a single season remaining on his contract, missed half of the 2024-25 campaign due to a lower-body injury that required surgery, but he demonstrated his recovery by scoring five goals during the Wild’s six-game playoff defeat to Vegas.
- General manager Bill Guerin, in his sixth year, expressed full confidence in securing Kaprizov’s long-term deal and emphasized building a championship-caliber team without signing poor contracts.
- With buyout charges set to drop drastically in 2025-26, the Wild’s roster flexibility improves, increasing pressure on Guerin to deepen the team around a promising core to break a decade-long playoff series drought.
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Wild 'confident' of securing deal with Kaprizov
Among the top priorities in the Minnesota Wild's offseason, is securing a contract extension for Kirill Kaprizov, the left wing who has one year left on his deal, and is the club's franchise forward and holder of 386 points in 319 regular-season games.
Wild GM Bill Guerin aims for Kirill Kaprizov extension and aggressive summer spending with cap constraints gone
The Minnesota Wild will have the ability to make several different moves this offseason, but the first order of business is clear: an extension for Kirill Kaprizov.
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Wild GM Guerin aims for Kaprizov extension and aggressive summer spending with cap constraints gone
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Can Kirill Kaprizov Live Up To Highest-Paid-In-the-NHL Billing?
“Dolla Bill Kirill” is about to live up to the name. So long as Kirill Kaprizov signs in Minnesota, he’s going to be an incredibly wealthy man sometime in July. Minnesota Wild owner Mr. Craig Leipold has vowed that no one will pay Kaprizov more money than Minnesota will. However, lately, it’s possib…
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