Oriental competition ready to back up the Brinks trailer for Kaprizov

The contract for the future of Kirill Kaprizov quickly becomes one of the most viewed storylines of the NHL, and according to Michael Russo of the Athletic, there is no shortage of lovers willing to pay large to land the Minnesota Wild Star. Among the early contenders are willing to go into everything, the Carolina Hurricanes.

“There are absolute teams that would extinguish the ‘Brinks truck’ for him,” Russo said about The leafstating the hurricanes as a prominent example, while it adds that “a million other teams” would also be in the mix if Kaprizov came on the market.

Kaprizov, 28, has been the franchise tool of Minnesota since arrival in 2020, placing elite offensive numbers and settled as one of the most important game breakers of the competition. De Wild certainly doesn’t want to lose him. Now that his contract situation looms up and his decision to reject an eight-year offer of $ 128 million from Minnesota, speculation is only intensified as to whether it wanted to keep the price tag or wants to keep him in the long term.

There have been suggestions that teams have informed the Kaprizov camp that a better offer is available. Such an offer would be considered tampering. On the other hand, things like this tend to leak with little way to verify where the “unofficial offer” came from. Whether Carolina or another team has announced that they are interested is unknown. It also makes no sense that the game complains, nor have they asked the NHL to take a look.

For now, Russo suggests that De Wild is not inclined to offer himself. “They don’t seem to be inclined to keep giving him more and more,” he said, indicating that the Front Office of Minnesota takes a strong attitude in negotiations.

Or the game can hold that line, especially with rivals in line, can define their future – and that of Kaprizov. And it will be fascinating to see if teams like Carolina keep their decks clear so that, as Kaprizov, they have the means to fit him on their salary cap.

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