[Signing] Wild sign Kaprizov to record setting contract extension (8 yrs, $17 mil AAV)

[Scroopy Noopers]

[Badgers Nose]

The Wild will regret at least 3 years of that contract.

And they will not win a cup in that timeframe.

[Bonded]

I feel like this was an owner stepping in. Crazy contract the day it was signed.

[Coach]

Yup. The Wild need multiple Stanley Cup runs to make this make sense. I don't see it.

[CliffFletcher]

If the Wild didn’t pay him, he walks next summer to a team that would (and there are other teams that were willing to pay $16mil+).

So now a team that won 5 playoff rounds in the last 20 years loses the best player in franchise history, and they’re rebuilding. Sometimes it isn’t as easy as playing an NHL GM simulator.

[Badgers Nose]

Originally Posted by CliffFletcher

If the Wild didn’t pay him, he walks next summer to a team that would (and there are other teams that were willing to pay $16mil+).

So now a team that won 5 playoff rounds in the last 20 years loses the best player in franchise history, and they’re rebuilding. Sometimes it isn’t as easy as playing an NHL GM simulator.

That’s not the only alternative to signing him. Come on, you can do better than that. Don’t conjure Cliff’s name and give us that take.

[BigThief]

Originally Posted by Badgers Nose

That’s not the only alternative to signing him. Come on, you can do better than that. Don’t conjure Cliff’s name and give us that take.

Trading him? For what?

[AustinL_NHL]

Originally Posted by Coach

Yup. The Wild need multiple Stanley Cup runs to make this make sense. I don't see it.

It's a massive contract, but let's not overdo it.

One Stanley Cup in that time period would be worth an entire roster filled with bad 8-year contracts for 99% of NHL teams if that's what it took to win one Cup.

For a mid-destination like the Wild, who's best result in team history is making the 3rd round 23 years ago, locking up their best, most exciting player in team history is worth whatever price to the organization, especially one that probably needs to view the league more from the true entertainment business it is rather that allocating what's probably at worse only a few million dollars per season a bit better throughout their roster

[dino7c]

IDK you have to draw the line at some point...16M should have been that point IMO