As I already said, Kaprizov would likely get to dictate where he'd be sent. Which means he'd probably be on a contending team or very close to it. He'd be far more likely to be willing to sign long-term there than here. The two reasons why he wants to go short-term are because he wants to cash in on a 2nd payday contract around Panarin level of money and because he doesn't want to be tied down with us if things go south.

More than anything, he wants to win. He wants to compete for a Stanley Cup. He doesn't want to play long-term for a team where his center is Victor f*cking Rask. If he goes to a team that can compete and contend for the cup, and he gets to play with an actual top-six caliber center. Chances are pretty good he'd be willing to sign long-term.

Again, I think these are a lot of assumptions on what's going on in a player's mind. You, me, nor anyone knows what he'd actually do if given the chance. He may only want a bridge deal to hold him over until he's 27 so he can be a UFA and get a bigger pay day. As of right now, all we know for sure is that he wants a shorter deal or he bolts to Russia. To assume anything else is just unwise.

Maybe...

But the comments about him wanting to win and that he wants to compete for the cup and that he wants to be on a competitive team, with a proper center on his line, we're all originally made by Michael Russo. Not me. He's more plugged into what's going on then either of us.

You can call it assumptions if you want. You're probably correct in that. But reading between the lines and inferring what he would do, given the information we have at hand, isn't a stretch. But logical reasoning.

Obviously you could be right at the end of the day and your reasoning isn't flawed, but I just find that we as fans sometimes like to think we know what a player wants, and again, you may ultimately be right. I do think however at this point that Guerin would probably make a hard play to upgrade the team to keep him than move him and take a setback. What MIN did this year was impressive until the end and I don't think anyone including Wild fans expected them to even sniff the playoffs.

We'll see though. We never really know how these things play out until they do. I do know coming from an interview with Foligno that Kiprizov definitely has a bit of an attitude and doesn't think too highly of all his teammates lol

guerin knows what hes doing not trading to philly this team still sucks anderson sucks and the d is not leaps and bounds better no chance kaprisov leaves trust me i know