Minnesota Wild Rookie Kirill Kaprizov Wins Calder Trophy Minnesota Wild rookie standout Kirill Kaprizov is the first player in team history to win the Calder Memorial Trophy. The yearly award is given to the league's most productive rookie, and Kaprizov certainly met the criteria by leading the team and all other NHL rookies with 51 points in 55 games this season, the team says he "is one of four rookies since 1992-93 to lead a team in points during the regular season, while helping them qualify for the playoffs." The 24-year-old Kaprizov was picked by the Wild in the fifth round (135th overall) in the 2015 NHL Entry Draft, and in 2020 he signed a two-year deal with the Wild after his deal with CSKA Moscow, a professional hockey club in his home country of Russia, expired.