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 look forward to 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 loads is, ‘okay, Kaprizov mentioned no to eight instances 16, did he give the Wild a quantity?’ They might 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 are 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 mentioned, or his consultant mentioned, ‘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 discuss 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 will signal him to the largest verify.’ I feel there’s some folks 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 in opposition to 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 folks on the market who’re good negotiators, who will say, when you’ve got somebody who says that about you publicly, typically the most effective factor you possibly can do is look forward to them to maintain making affords.
However you recognize, for those who’re the Wild, you must sit again there and suppose and say, ‘All proper, is that this actually the most effective factor for us to do? Does it make sense for us to go any additional?
You recognize, it’s kind of like courting, proper, Kyle? You recognize, typically you ask any person out, perhaps they are saying no, and also you’re considering, okay. You recognize, some persons are like, Oh, okay. They mentioned no, I’m shifting on to any person else. However some persons are like, all proper, they mentioned no this time, I’m gonna preserve making an attempt. I don’t, I actually like this particular person, I’m not giving up that simple. Like, thank God that Dana lastly mentioned 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 try this with Kaprizov. And, you recognize, I acknowledge that Kaprizov is just not like a variety of different gamers. He’s fairly distinctive. He’s among the best gamers within the league.
So, and you recognize, one of many issues that I’ve talked about Kyle is the e book, The Ball Reality by David Falk, the outdated basketball agent, and he talks about how some gamers are extra worthwhile of their conditions than others.
Such as you would possibly 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 worthwhile in Minnesota that the Wild might need to take a look at it and say, ‘Properly, perhaps he’s not an $18 million participant in Florida, however he is likely to be an $18 million participant to us.’
I feel that’s one of many largest choices Minnesota has to make. Are they shifting or not? And I feel you, proper now, I feel they’re emotional. However I feel you must sit again, actually take a deep breath and resolve, are we, are we being sensible by growing our provide?
Like, I do bear in mind one, one GM informed me a couple of story this weekend, and he mentioned it wasn’t a participant nearly as good as Kaprizov, however they had been going after him in free company, and we saved on elevating our provide, and the participant saved on hemming and hawing. And eventually, they only mentioned, 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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