Kirill Kaprizov News & Stories

To the tune of that "Flashdance" song: Power Feelings.

I'm in Thinking-of-Guys mode.

The Predators, Rangers, and Wild have are looking at big inflection points in the near future.

*Dracula voice* I vant to read your taaaakes

The Central Division is all we should be talking about.

JFresh ranks the 20 best left wingers in the NHL going into the 2024-25 season.

Goal-scoring is on the rise, so how many 40-goal scorers can we expect to see in the 2024-25 NHL season?

The Minnesota Wild are missing the playoffs. It might be the norm going forward.

Michael Clifford breaks down the tape and the data to help discover what's ailing Matt Boldy this season.

With a quarter of the season in the books, Cam Robinson is exploring whether some cold starts are simply prolonged rough patches or something more sinister.

JFresh opens his series of top players by looking at the left wingers.

If you thought that this year's cap crunch was bad for the Minnesota Wild, just wait until you see their books for next season. Ryan Lambert on where the Wild go from here.

JFresh previews the Minnesota Wild and Dallas Stars first-round series in the 2023 NHL Playoffs.

It's all about the championship.

Dimitri Filipovic picks out five Western Conference nuggets heading into the All-Star break.

This Film Room instalment has David St-Louis examining Calen Addison's emergence as the top power play option in Minnesota, and the state of the Wild's blue line.

This week's edition of the EP Rinkside 3 Stars zeroes in on goalscoring in the NHL, the Buffalo Sabres, and Bruce Cassidy's start in Vegas.

JFresh ranks the top left wings in the NHL entering the 2022-23 NHL regular season, and compares them to his 2021-22 rankings.

Elite Prospects analytics columnist JFresh previews the Minnesota Wild and St. Louis Blues' Western Conference quarterfinals playoff match.

A few weeks ago, I wanted you about a new revolution. I was going to start something new here at EPRinkside Every couple of weeks, I would open up a...

It's the three stars of the week and they're all good!

EP Rinkside's resident Fantasy Hockey expert Cam Robinson is looking way into the future, ranking the 50 best players for the 2026-27 season. This is a must-read resource for anyone in a keeper league.

Fantasy draft season is officially upon us. With regular-season games kicking off on Tuesday, there are precious few moments remaining to nab the players that will launch your team to...

EP Rinkside Senior Columnist Ryan Lambert kicks off a Trophy Watch series by looking at the players with the best candidacies for the Hart Memorial and Ted Lindsay trophies in the 2021-22 season.

JFresh ranks the 20 best left wingers in the NHL going into the 2021-22 season.

This may look to you as a standard NHL “power rankings” but let me assure you, friend, that it is anything but. These rankings are based entirely on how I feel about a team’s chances of winning the Cup, meaning you can’t tell me I’m wrong because these are my feelings and feelings can’t be wrong.

Every year it happens. Some wild and unpredicted swings occur in the fantasy landscape that makes a few lucky teams the big winners of the season. Sometimes, you can be...

There is an intractable problem at the heart of the Kirill Kaprizov negotiations with the Minnesota Wild. While both sides seemingly agree that the AAV should start with a nine, there is apparently some dispute as to how that money is paid out.

Every year, there are guys who score more goals than anyone would have expected, seemingly out of nowhere. There may be a lot of reasons why this happens, but the question we should always be asking about those players is, What does this mean for the player? Ryan Lambert takes a look at which players over-performed this year.

As the finalists for each of the major individual awards that we care about get announced over the next couple of weeks, we'll be sorting through where the voters got it right and where they went wrong. This time we'll take a look at the Calder Trophy nominees.

In the final regular season edition of Filipovic's Fun Facts, Dimitri Filipovic empties the notebook and gets into some of his favourite random stats from the year that was.

JFresh breaks down and visualizing the West Division first round matchups.

The point totals still aren't there, but as JFresh breaks down, the New Jersey Devils centre has taken a major step forward at both ends of the ice

My last piece on Kirill Kaprizov, an analysis of his transition to North American hockey, ran with the title ''There will be an adjustment period, but Kirill Kaprizov has all...

J.D. Burke polled his team of writers for their mid-season NHL awards winners, and he's revealing the results in this article on Rinkside.

It was a record setting night for Alex Ovechkin, and a night of firsts for a few slightly less accomplished players. Dimitri Filipovic gets into it with tonight's 3 Stars.

Dimitri Filipovic checks in with the debut of a new monthly feature on Rinkside, one aptly named 'NHL Trophy Watch,' in which he looks at the NHL award frontrunners as the carries on.

Can the Olympic Athletes from Russia pull off an improbable gold model repeat at the 2022 Olympic games?

The Minnesota Wild are suddenly appointment viewing, and Dimitri Filipovic lays most of the responsibility at the feet of Kirill Kaprizov.

Connor McDavid, Semyon Varlamov and a rookie from Minnesota earned three star nods on Thursday.

After a solid showing from the first group of rookies on Opening Night, Thursday gives hockey another epic night of NHL debuts.

It took them long enough, but the Minnesota Wild finally decided to embark upon something of a rebuild. With a strong 2020 draft and Marco Rossi's addition at ninth-overall in...