With the Minnesota Wild starting to improve their play as of late — a lot of that being due to the play of the under-23 core — let’s take a look at the pipeline and gauge the state of Minnesota’s prospect pool.
Kirill Kaprizov (LW/RW), CSKA Moscow (KHL): 2015 fifth-round pick, 135th overall
29 Games Played: 16 goals, 13 assists, 29 points
Kaprizov has started to get back into a goal-scoring groove with three in his last five games after only one goal in the previous seven games before that.