Minnesota Wild star Kirill Kaprizov needs surgery on the lingering lower-body injury he recently returned from and will be sidelined for at least a month.

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.

Kaprizov said that he wouldn't be limited by the injury when he initially returned, indicating he was in full health. "Just something happened," Kaprizov said to The Athletic. "I