{"id":217299,"date":"2025-09-30T21:57:18","date_gmt":"2025-09-30T21:57:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/217299\/"},"modified":"2025-09-30T21:57:18","modified_gmt":"2025-09-30T21:57:18","slug":"minnesota-wild-sign-kirill-kaprizov-to-nhl-record-136m-extension-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/217299\/","title":{"rendered":"Minnesota Wild sign Kirill Kaprizov to NHL-record $136M extension"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sept. 30 (UPI) &#8212; The Minnesota Wild signed winger Kirill Kaprizov to a $136 million extension, setting an NHL record for total money and average value, the team announced Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>The eight-year deal ties Kaprizov to the Wild through the 2033-34 season. The 28-year-old Russian will make an average of $17 million per season.<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>Kaprizov, the 2020-21 Calder Memorial Trophy winner, logged 25 goals and 31 assists for 56 points over 41 games in 2024-25, when he missed time because of a lower-body injury.<\/p>\n<p>He logged a career-high 108 points &#8212; from 47 goals and 61 assists &#8212; over 81 appearances in 2021-22. Kaprizov totaled 46 goals and 50 assists for 96 points over 75 appearances in 2023-24.<\/p>\n<p>The Wild went 45-30-7 last season, but lost in the first round of the NHL playoffs. They haven&#8217;t advanced to the second round since 2014-15.<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>The Wild will host the Winnipeg Jets in a preseason game at 8 p.m. EDT Tuesday in St. Paul, Minn. They will take on the Chicago Blackhawks in their preseason finale Friday in Chicago.<\/p>\n<p>The St. Louis Blues will host the Wild in their regular-season opener Oct. 9 in St. Louis.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Sept. 30 (UPI) &#8212; The Minnesota Wild signed winger Kirill Kaprizov to a $136 million extension, setting an&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":217300,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[71,37,5,537,38,4,60,534,1491,18],"class_list":{"0":"post-217299","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nhl","8":"tag-blues","9":"tag-chicago","10":"tag-hockey","11":"tag-kirill-kaprizov","12":"tag-minnesota-wild","13":"tag-nhl","14":"tag-nhl-playoffs","15":"tag-st-louis","16":"tag-the-wild","17":"tag-winnipeg-jets"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nhl\/115295488965634420","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/217299","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=217299"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/217299\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/217300"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=217299"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=217299"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=217299"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}