Kaprizov impresses veteran teammates in first Wild practice
- Kaprizov, who was selected by Minnesota in the fifth round (No. 135) of the 2015 NHL Draft, led the Kontinental Hockey League in goals each of the past two seasons (33 in 2019-20, 30 in 2018-19).
- "You can see he's got a knack for scoring," Parise said.
- That knack has intensified the expectations for Kaprizov to immediately help out Minnesota, which was 12th in the NHL in scoring last season (3.16 goals per gamee) but had only two players score at least 20 goals (Parise, 25; forward Kevin Fiala, 23)
- "We know he's going to have a special talent, a special skill level, and we're obviously excited about that, but we want him to conduct himself like we ask [everybody] on our hockey club, [and that is] that they work their butt off every shift and we give ourselves a chance to win hockey games."
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