Kaprizov injury update before Blackhawks matchup

The Minnesota Wild announced Thursday that forward Kirill Kaprizov would not play in the team's game against the Chicago Blackhawks and is day-to-day with a lower-body injury. In 69 games this season, Kaprizov has 38 goals and 42 assists for 80 points.

He ranks third in the league in goals and tenth in the league in points. Through six NHL seasons, the 28-year-old Kaprizov has 223 goals and 243 assists for 466 points in 388 career regular-season games.

Earlier this month, he became the Wild's all-time goals leader, passing Marian Gaborik with his 220th career regular-season goal. Kaprizov has twice broken the 90-point mark and is on pace to do it a third time this season.

In the 2021-22 season, he set career highs with 47 goals and 61 assists for 108 points, finishing fifth in the league in both goals and points. Kaprizov was taken by the Wild in the fifth round of the 2015 NHL Entry Draft.

He spent the next five seasons in Russia's KHL, helping CSKA Moscow win a Gagarin Cup in 2019. In 293 career KHL games, Kaprizov had 113 goals and 117 assists for 230 points. Going into Thursday night, the Wild are 38-18-12 with 90 points, third in the Central Division and Western Conference, and fourth in the NHL.

Forward Matt Boldy is tied with Kaprizov with 38 goals, and has 37 assists for 75 points. Defenseman Quinn Hughes, whom the Wild acquired in a trade with the Vancouver Canucks earlier in the season, has six goals and 61 assists for 67 points in 63 total games in the 2025-26 season.

Minnesota's next game is Saturday when they host their division rival, the Dallas Stars.