{"id":134285,"date":"2025-09-11T03:04:07","date_gmt":"2025-09-11T03:04:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/134285\/"},"modified":"2025-09-11T03:04:07","modified_gmt":"2025-09-11T03:04:07","slug":"report-wilds-kirill-kaprizov-rejects-nhl-record-contract-offer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/134285\/","title":{"rendered":"Report: Wild&#8217;s Kirill Kaprizov rejects NHL-record contract offer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Wild star turned down an eight-year, $128-million extension offer on Tuesday, hockey insider Frank Seravalli <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/frank_seravalli\/status\/1965812721955570082\" rel=\"nofollow\">reported<\/a> on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>The contract would have been the highest in NHL history in both average annual value ($16 million) and total earnings.<\/p>\n<p>Kaprizov, 28, can enter free agency in 2026 and has been eligible to sign an extension since July 1.<\/p>\n<p>Despite just five seasons in the NHL, Kaprizov has already established himself as one of the league\u2019s most prolific scorers. The three-time 40-plus goal-scorer has been a point-per-game player in all but one of his NHL seasons and captured the Calder Trophy following his rookie season in 2020-21.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The Russian suffered injuries last season that limited him to 41 games, but made the most of it with 25 goals and 31 assists and matched his career-high shooting percentage at 17.2.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The three-time all-star was a late-round gem for the Wild, selected 135th overall in the 2015 NHL Draft.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Wild star turned down an eight-year, $128-million extension offer on Tuesday, hockey insider Frank Seravalli reported on&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":134286,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[556],"tags":[64,63,575,85],"class_list":["post-134285","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nhl","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-nhl","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/134285","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=134285"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/134285\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/134286"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=134285"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=134285"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=134285"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}