The Wild avoided tomorrow's arbitration hearing with Kevin Fiala by agreeing on a one year contract worth a reported $5.1M.

Fiala was seeking $6.25M and a long term deal while the Wild were offering in $4M range. Not sure this is how Bill Guerin had hoped the Fiala contract situation would have played out, but with the ever complex Kirill Kaprizov contract taking center stage this off-season it was a best case scenario to ensure that thw Wild's leading scorer over the past two seasons is in camp under contract on time

That was the biggest factor when dealing with Fiala as you will recall he was late to camp back in 2019 and got off to a very slow start before heating up and finishing the season with career high in points with 54 and matching his career best 23 goals in the COVID-19 shortened season that saw him play just 64 games.

Fiala followed that with another 20 goal and 20 assist campaign this past year while playing with a number of different centers along the way.

Fiala and the Wild will negotiate off his one year deal next off-season as an RFA. The hope from the Wild side is that they have a clearer picture of their own cap situation and time to work it. While the hope from Fiala's side is he has a banner year putting up numbers while continuing to round out his complete game approach and escalates his value in a long term deal.

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