Minnesota Wild general manager Bill Guerin said he doesn't want "all-out panic" among the team's fans after star winger Kirill Kaprizov reportedly turned down an NHL record contract extension this week.

Kaprizov is in the last year of a five-year, $45 million contract, which carries a no-movement clause. He can become an unrestricted free agent next summer. The Wild offered him an eight-year contract extension worth $128 million that Kaprizov and his agent turned down in a meeting Tuesday, according to NHL reporter Frank Seravalli.

That average annual value of $16 million would have been $2 million more than that of Edmonton Oilers center Leon Draisaitl 's contract, which currently has the highest AAV in the NHL. The total value of the deal would have surpassed the 13-year, $124 m

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