Just when things were looking up for Kirill Kaprizov's health, the Minnesota Wild announced that he would be undergoing surgery on Tuesday. The star forward missed practice after talk within the organization as to whether he would need surgery rumbled over the last several days.

If Kaprizov has surgery this week for a lower-body injury that has been ailing him since December, he would miss six weeks, per sources.

It is not a season-ending injury, but it will put him on the shelf for the next little while,” Minnesota general manager Bill Guerin said, meeting with reporters at TRIA Rink