Sportsnet: Elliotte Friedman on the 32 Ideas: The Podcast – The Solely Factor Larger Than Hischier Will Be Kaprizov’s Contract episode, on Kirill Kaprizov, Minnesota Wild proprietor Craig Leipold’s prior feedback about doing no matter it takes to get it finished, and can Kaprizov simply await extra.
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“Now, the short-term, that’s the larger query proper now. What occurs within the interim? Now, one of many questions that’s been requested across the league quite a bit is, ‘okay, Kaprizov stated no to eight instances 16, did he give the Wild a quantity?’ They’d say, ‘Okay, for those who put this in entrance of me, I’m signing it.’ Or did the Wild ask him, ‘okay, you’re not going to take this, what is going to you’re taking? Give us the quantity.’
And so far as I can inform, that has not occurred. That there’s, that there’s at the least within the sense that there’s no magic quantity on the market for Kaprizov now, that he stated, or his consultant stated, ‘Put this in entrance of me and I’ll signal it.’
Okay. Now, the one of many risks of this one is, no person’s actually commenting right here, however I feel this story is so explosive, and there’s a lot speak about it across the league, I feel if there was a quantity on the desk,
then, I feel we’d find out about it. So I’m saying proper now that that’s not there so far as I do know.
Um, I feel that one of many issues that occurred in a pair podcasts in the past, you talked about it with Craig Leipold, the proprietor, saying, ‘We’ll do no matter it takes to get this finished. We are able to signal him to the largest test.’ I feel there’s some individuals sitting right here questioning if Kaprisov and (agent Paul) Theofanus are merely sitting there saying, how far can we push this?
Will we get to the purpose the place the Wild are negotiating towards themselves? Do they merely preserve elevating the quantity? Okay, we didn’t get it finished at 16. What about 16 and a half? What about 17? Like, I don’t know precisely what the quantity can be right here, however there are many individuals on the market who’re good negotiators, who will say, if in case you have somebody who says that about you publicly, generally one of the best factor you can do is await them to maintain making presents.
However , for those who’re the Wild, it’s important to sit again there and suppose and say, ‘All proper, is that this actually one of the best factor for us to do? Does it make sense for us to go any additional?
, it’s type of like courting, proper, Kyle? , generally you ask someone out, perhaps they are saying no, and also you’re pondering, okay. , some persons are like, Oh, okay. They stated no, I’m shifting on to someone else. However some persons are like, all proper, they stated no this time, I’m gonna preserve attempting. I don’t, I actually like this individual, I’m not giving up that simple. Like, thank God that Dana lastly stated sure to you. I may solely think about what number of instances you needed to ask her out earlier than she would say sure.
However let’s, the query is, are the Wild going to do this with Kaprizov. And, , I acknowledge that Kaprizov is just not like a whole lot of different gamers. He’s fairly distinctive. He’s among the finest gamers within the league.
So, and , one of many issues that I’ve talked about Kyle is the guide, The Ball Reality by David Falk, the outdated basketball agent, and he talks about how some gamers are extra precious of their conditions than others.
Such as you may take a look at Kaprizov and say, ‘All proper, I don’t suppose he’s an $18 million participant or $20 million participant.’ However he’s so precious in Minnesota that the Wild may need to have a look at it and say, ‘Properly, perhaps he’s not an $18 million participant in Florida, however he may be an $18 million participant to us.’
I feel that’s one of many largest selections Minnesota has to make. Are they shifting or not? And I feel you, proper now, I feel they’re emotional. However I feel it’s important to sit again, actually take a deep breath and resolve, are we, are we being sensible by rising our provide?
Like, I do keep in mind one, one GM informed me a couple of story this weekend, and he stated it wasn’t a participant pretty much as good as Kaprizov, however they have been going after him in free company, and we stored on elevating our provide, and the participant stored on hemming and hawing. And eventually, they simply stated, like, he doesn’t actually wish to be right here. If, if he’s going to be right here, he’s solely right here for the cash, and that’s going to be a catastrophe for everybody concerned.
So I truly suppose the largest determination is Minnesota’s.”
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