The best player in Wild history reportedly turned down the richest contract in NHL history this week.
That seems ... bad.
NHL insider Frank Seravalli’s reporting said the Wild’s offer was eight years, $128 million — which would make it the largest deal in terms of both total money and average annual value.
Kaprizov has one year left on his five-year, $45 million deal. He could have signed an extension in July, but here it is mid-September and nothing is done.
And now this.
How should we view this report, particularly framed within Kaprizov’s comments in May and Wild President of Hockey Operations Bill Guerin’s comments on Wednesday?
I talked about that extensively on Thursday’s Daily Delivery podcast.
Here are some of those thoughts at the start of today’s 10 things to know:
