The Wild's Kirill Kaprizov will be sidelined a minimum of four weeks after surgery planned for a lower-body injury, Bill Guerin said. (Carlos Gonzalez/The Minnesota Star Tribune)

It is not a season-ending injury, but it will put him on the shelf for the next little while,” Minnesota general manager Bill Guerin said, meeting with reporters at TRIA Rink

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.