LOS ANGELES — Craig Leipold desperately wanted to travel to Moscow with general manager Paul Fenton so he could meet Kirill Kaprizov, look him straight in the eyes and convey just how badly the Wild want the dynamic young prospect donning a Wild sweater in a few years.



There has been too much lost in translation since the Wild drafted him in 2015, and the lack of communication at least partly resulted in Kaprizov signing a two-year extension with his KHL team that will keep him from signing with the Wild until at least the 2020-21 season.



Unfortunately, Leipold’s twice-replaced left hip didn’t heal fast enough for the team’s owner to cross the Atlantic with Fenton on Saturday morning so he could meet Kaprizov. So Leipold did the next best thing he could think of: On personalized Minnesota Wild Craig Leipold stationary, the owner wrote Kaprizov a letter … in Russian.



“It was translated into Russian and typed in Russian, so...