The Daily: Big Money for Kaprisov ?; Dallas Offers Hanas PTO?

Minnesota Wild general manager Bill Guerin refuted reports that Kaprizov rejected a contract offer that would have made him the league’s highest paid player at $16 million per season.

Guerin made the denial as a guest on the 10,000 Takes Podcast.

“Look, I don’t know where this stuff comes from,” Guerin said about the report. “I know two things: that info didn’t come from us, and it didn’t come from Kirill’s agent. I don’t know where it came from.”

Hockey Insider Frank Seravalli said Kaprizov turned down an offer of eight years for $128 million. If the offer is true, a deal of that magnitude would have made the league’s highest-paid player in terms of average salary and value of the deal

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Texas native Cross Hanas is listed on the Dallas Stars training camp roster. We can presume he will be on a PTO, although nothing official has come from the Stars.  The Red Wings didn’t make a qualifying offer to him when his contract expired. Left-wing Hanas played three seasons for the Grand Rapids Griffins and averaged 16 or 17 points all three seasons.

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