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Wild: Rising cap makes Kirill Kaprizov’s NHL-record deal a reasonable risk
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The Dickinson Press
Bill Guerin rarely minces his words, and the Minnesota Wild general manager didn’t pick last week to start.
Fiscal fireworksPrior to last week, unquestionably the biggest off-ice moment in Wild history came on July 4, 2012.
That means Kaprizov’s salary, as history-making as it is, will comprise roughly 15 percent of the team’s salary cap.
It didn’t happen for various reasons, not least of which was that under the salary cap of the time, the Wild simply didn’t have the money to significantly build around their new stars.
Perhaps the biggest-name free agent the Wild signed during the Parise/Suter era was former Gophers star Thomas Vanek before being bought out.