Tuesday’s FTB: Kaprizov to the KHL?

Photo by Anton Novoderezhkin\\TASS via Getty ImagesGood morning Toronto Maple Leafs fans!

It’s the dog days of the off-season and there isn’t much news around so let’s have a quick run down of what I could find then you can go into the comments and argue about hot dogs and V-Tech phones and unlawful comments.

First up is the big one: Kirill Kaprizov has reportedly signed a deal with CSKA Moscow for one year and will go play in the KHL unless he gets the contract he wants from the Minnesota Wild.

This is a very common tactic in negotiating, as we saw with the Mitch Marner negotiations a couple summers ago.

Reports are accurate the Marner camp has had discussions with Zurich. Wouldn’t be…