As the first full week of training camp begins, there’s no hint of an answer to the question that most Minnesota Wild fans have about the coming season and the half-dozen or so seasons to come after that. If star forward Kirill Kaprizov is to sign a contract extension that will keep him in Minnesota after July of next year, neither his agent Paul Theofanous nor Wild general manager Bill Guerin are admitting to having anything cooking right now.

Theofanous reportedly made an unannounced trip to Minnesota last week and had a lengthy conversation with a member of the Wild’s hockey operations department during a training camp scrimmage at TRIA Rink. But if those talks yielded any progress, or any setbacks, neither side is talking about it.

He is healthy and has been a full participant in tra

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