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Kirill Kaprizov
Minnesota Wild Left Wing #97
A fifth-round pick out of Russia who turned into the most electric goal-scorer this franchise has ever had.
| Season | Team | GP | G | A | PTS | +/- | PIM | PP | SH | GW | S | S% | TOI |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2020-21 | MIN | 55 | 27 | 24 | 51 | +10 | 16 | 8 | 0 | 3 | 157 | 17.2 | 18:18 |
| 2021-22 | MIN | 81 | 47 | 61 | 108 | +27 | 34 | 14 | 0 | 5 | 289 | 16.3 | 19:06 |
| 2022-23 | MIN | 67 | 40 | 35 | 75 | +4 | 45 | 17 | 0 | 6 | 261 | 15.3 | 21:07 |
| 2023-24 | MIN | 75 | 46 | 50 | 96 | +11 | 36 | 19 | 0 | 8 | 277 | 16.6 | 21:35 |
| 2024-25 | MIN | 41 | 25 | 31 | 56 | +19 | 16 | 4 | 0 | 5 | 145 | 17.2 | 22:28 |
| 2025-26 | MIN | 78 | 45 | 44 | 89 | +10 | 28 | 19 | 0 | 7 | 269 | 16.7 | 22:09 |
| 2026-27 so far | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| Career | — | 397 | 230 | 245 | 475 | +81 | 175 | 81 | 0 | 34 | 1398 | 16.4 | 20:45 |
This Season So Far
The 2026-27 season has not started. The empty row above is his, and both it and this paragraph fill in on their own from the morning after he first plays: what he has done, what it is worth against his own last season, and the run he is on when the two disagree.
Last Season
45 goals and 89 points in 78 games, 19 of the goals on the power play, on 269 shots and 22 minutes a night. That is a career year, and it came on a team whose second-best forward is a 24-year-old and whose next-best was traded.
The Finesse Game
The shot is the headline and it is a genuinely rare one — heavy, quick, and released from positions where a goaltender has not finished setting. He scores from the top of the circle on his off wing as often as he scores from in tight, which for a winger listed at 5-10 is unusual and is what makes him impossible to play a single way.
The hands in traffic are the other half. He protects the puck low in the zone with a wide base and a strong lower body, and he wins pucks back below the goal line against defencemen with 6 inches on him. That is where a lot of the offence starts: not off the rush, but off him simply refusing to give the puck up.
He is a better passer than the goal totals suggest, and he spent 54 percent of his 5-on-5 ice time with Zuccarello, who has gone to Los Angeles. That is the single largest question about this team’s season.
The Physical Game
5-10 and 202, and built like a fire hydrant. He absorbs contact well and is very hard to knock off a puck, though he is not a forechecker who finishes checks for their own sake. 28 penalty minutes across a full season is a player who is engaged without being reckless.
The Intangibles
He arrived late from the KHL with a reputation already made, and everything about his adjustment to this league was immediate. He is the reason a small-market club sells out, and he plays like he knows it.
The honest caution: his production has leaned on a specific linemate for several years, and that linemate is gone. This season is a real test of whether he elevates people or was elevated.
What kind of player
The searchable half of the report. The first group is computed from the season's own data; the rest are read out of the prose above, and each one carries the sentence that produced it. A subject the report never raised is simply absent.
- measuredcomputed here from the season's own data
Each computed tag also says how well its measure holds up from one season to the next, because a tag describes a season that has finished and a reader will assume it predicts the one coming. Some do and some do not, and the gap is wide: five-on-five workload repeats well, scoring late does not repeat at all.
The numbers underneath
On the ice
Five-on-five, 2025-26 · 1,307 minutes
- Expected goals
- 53.5%
- 80th pct
- Shot attempts
- 51.3%
- 69th pct
share of the chances while he was out there
share of the attempts while he was out there
Goals while he was on the ice: 63 for, 53 against. Expected: 62.3 and 54.1.
The eye and the numbers
SightedThe two rank him within 19 points of one another. It was written with these numbers on screen, so the agreement is not corroboration — the arithmetic is on both sides of it.
Both bars are percentiles among the 656 skaters in this edition with a report and enough ice time. The report bar ranks the mean of the grades above — 87 on their own scale — against every other report's mean. The numbers bar ranks his share of expected goals. A gap is a disagreement about where he belongs, not two scales talking past each other.
Tracked
NHL Edge, 2025-26 · 78 games
- Top speed
- 22.4 mph
- 60th pct
- Bursts over 20 mph
- 1.14 a game
- Distance
- 3.62 miles a game
- Hardest shot
- 87.8 mph
- 68th pct
fastest he was clocked all season; the league's average best is 22.2
how often he reaches that speed, not how fast he goes
skated, all strengths
one shot; the league's average best is 83.6
A top speed is a season's best, and a man who takes more shifts gets more tries at one; the percentile is the feed's own, against every skater, and says less between a top-pair defenceman and a fourth-line wing than it does between two men in the same job. The counts are shown per game for the same reason.
Recent form
Last 20 appearances, 2025-26, oldest first
10
points in his last 10 games — 7 goals, 3 assists, 35 shots
Each bar is one game by points. Filled bars are games he scored in.
Usual linemates
2025-26 · 1307 minutes at five-on-five
- Ryan Hartman40%
- Danila Yurov23%
Share of his five-on-five ice time spent alongside each player, measured from shift charts. Special teams are excluded: a power-play unit is not a line.
Why the numbers land there
Five-on-five, 2025-26
- The club
- MIN took 50.5% of the expected goals as a club. His own share is 53.5% — 3.0 above the club he did it on.
- The role
- First line, 1,307 minutes at five-on-five — 88th percentile in ice time.
With and without
| Teammate | Together | Him apart | Mate apart |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mats Zuccarello | 55.0% | 51.8% | 50.8% |
| Brock Faber | 52.3% | 54.7% | 52.2% |
| Ryan Hartman | 56.4% | 51.3% | 50.0% |
55.0% together, 51.8% for him apart and 50.8% for Zuccarello apart. Both were worse apart, so whatever the two of them had together was doing real work.
Expected-goal share while both were on the ice, and for each man in the minutes he played without the other. Apart is the pair subtracted from his own totals. It does not settle who was carrying whom — apart from each other, both were still playing with somebody — but it does say whether the share travelled when the pairing broke up.
Where he shoots from
goal on goal missed
416 unblocked shots in 2025-26, 44 of them goals. His median goal came from 20 feet. 39% of his shots came from inside twenty feet, 20% from beyond forty.