{"id":216735,"date":"2025-10-11T12:37:07","date_gmt":"2025-10-11T12:37:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/216735\/"},"modified":"2025-10-11T12:37:07","modified_gmt":"2025-10-11T12:37:07","slug":"wild-match-north-stars-for-years-in-minnesota-but-theres-no-danger-of-losing-this-team","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/216735\/","title":{"rendered":"Wild match North Stars for years in Minnesota, but there\u2019s no danger of losing this team"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"rt-Text\">Otherwise, he takes a hike for the NHL\u2019s wildest free-agent bidding contest in history in 2027.<\/p>\n<p class=\"rt-Text\">Meantime, for an extra $5 million, the Wild have Kaprizov for nine years \u2014 $7.5 million this season, then eight years of the big bucks.<\/p>\n<p class=\"rt-Text\">And what was the reaction of this investment by owner Craig Leipold? This week, the Wild was informed by the NHL\u2019s marketing department that the league\u2019s No. 1 selling jersey had become Kaprizov\u2019s.<\/p>\n<p class=\"rt-Text\">It has been amazing to see the Wild\u2019s ability to take advantage of North Stars\u2019 nostalgia by wearing their colors. Few remember, it seems, the average attendance dropped 4,000 per game from one season to the next early in North Stars history; that they averaged 7,838 in 1990-91 before that miraculous run to the Stanley Cup Final; that they sold to Green in the summer of \u203290 for roughly $100 million less than Kaprizov will be making over the next nine seasons.<\/p>\n<p class=\"rt-Text\">No Cups yet, but a fan base that has made this franchise an astounding Minnesota success, and a fan base that does not have to worry about this coming in Year 26 for the Wild:<\/p>\n<p class=\"rt-Text\">Leipold showing up in Houston in early March to announce he\u2019s moving the team there, as Green did in Dallas on March 10, 1992.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Otherwise, he takes a hike for the NHL\u2019s wildest free-agent bidding contest in history in 2027. Meantime, for&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":216736,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[66],"tags":[385,99],"class_list":["post-216735","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nhl","tag-nhl","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/216735","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=216735"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/216735\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/216736"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=216735"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=216735"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=216735"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}