Aquiring high-end talent in the NHL, or any league for that matter, tends to be one of those things that is easier said than done. Coming across a late round diamond in the rough, even more difficult. There were some in the Wild organization, who back in 2015, saw the raw talent there, and were surprised that their guy fell all the way to the 5th round in the draft. But for much of the State of Hockey, Kirill Kaprizov was a relative unknown then. After all, he’s a Russian-born kid with a tremendous ceiling, at a time when it’s become increasingly difficult for the NHL to pluck talent out of Russia due to the KHL gobbling up it’s own home-grown players with NHL caliber contracts.
Top 25 Under 25: Kirill Kaprizov locked in at #2
