Report: Wild Have Not Asked Kirill Kaprizov For Trade List, Yet

I’m in the ’where there’s smoke there’s fire’ opinion. 
 

97 rejected the max offer.  Fine.  Most optimistic take is that he wants shorter term.  That point can be made in the same meeting they reject the initial offer.  Easy peezy.  But we haven’t heard anything yet.  
Then the specifics of offer get leaked.  I believe this is to prep suitor’s on what their starting AAV should be while 97 and agent hold a low key auction.  And now we hear wild asking for trade list while bill has nothing to say except belly aching about how everyone is mean to him on the 10K podcast (10K?!?!)

 Meanwhile we’ll get to listen to bill blame everyone else, and Brackett is the patsy. 

Best case we find that this is just the click bait mafia doing what they do best.  Worst case, bill gets a third five year plan and we watch a lineup full of neideritter’s (ogz) and Coyle’s (Stramel) for near future

1 hour ago, Pewterschmidt said:

I’m in the ’where there’s smoke there’s fire’ opinion. 
 

97 rejected the max offer.  Fine.  Most optimistic take is that he wants shorter term.  That point can be made in the same meeting they reject the initial offer.  Easy peezy.  But we haven’t heard anything yet.  
Then the specifics of offer get leaked.  I believe this is to prep suitor’s on what their starting AAV should be while 97 and agent hold a low key auction.  And now we hear wild asking for trade list while bill has nothing to say except belly aching about how everyone is mean to him on the 10K podcast (10K?!?!)

 Meanwhile we’ll get to listen to bill blame everyone else, and Brackett is the patsy. 

Best case we find that this is just the click bait mafia doing what they do best.  Worst case, bill gets a third five year plan and we watch a lineup full of neideritter’s (ogz) and Coyle’s (Stramel) for near future

He might actually take much less (team friendly) from another team if they are closer to contending. Whether he wants a shorter term or to get out, it's obvious he doesn't have a lot of faith in the organization to commit long term. Not even money can change that.

I did some digging this morning about what the Wild have done standings wise going back since the Gaborik years.  I think what I found was the years the Wild had the best offenses, it wasn't just Gaborik or Kap.  It was Gaborik AND Rolston, Demitra, etc.  It was Parise, Suter, AND Granlund/Staal.  Last time, it was Kap and Fiala going 108/85 in the same season.  Defense and goaltending have stayed relatively stable in the Top 5-15 league wide, barring Gus and Fleury's bad year a couple years ago.

I think Kap is a very good reason for the team's offense.  But I am not convinced anymore that he should be $16-$20m reasons.  

I maintain that the depth scoring has to improve.  Get those 30-40s up to 45-60s floors so the 2nd/3rd lines are a bit more impactful.  Loading everything in the Kap basket might prevent that.  I think you can do that without sacrificing defense.  Hynes's system IS defense first, but not so clamped down the top offensive guys didn't find the net.  It's just middling to iffy 20-40 point players being all they've had to work with.  Most other teams seem to spread the wealth in the 50-70s.