The first day of Minnesota Wild training camp came and went on Thursday.
Kirill Kaprizov was there, on the ice, looking like the superstar that he is. Wild General Manager Bill Guerin was there, too, answering a lot of questions about Kaprizov’s contract status. Kaprizov’s agent, Paul Theofanous, was there and talked to Wild decisionmakers. And Kaprizov had a long session with reporters during which the main subject was his future with the team.
It seemed like the kind of day where we should have learned a lot. But the thing I learned the most is this: We still don’t have an answer to the most fundamental question looming over this season.
What does Kaprizov want?
I talked about that on Friday’s Daily Delivery podcast, but let’s dig in more during today’s 10 things to know.
Kaprizov was deliberately vague in his answers to questions about his future, while Guerin shed little light on where negotiations stand.
Kaprizov has one year left on his five-year, $45 million contract. He can be a free agent at the end of the season. Last week it was reported that Kaprizov turned down an eight-year, $128 million extension offer from the Wild. When asked about that, he said he simply tries not to watch the news.
Any attempt at reading the situation is still clouded with a lot of ifs:
