NHL Power Rankings: Which Teams Are Lighting Up the Ice and Which Are Hanging by a Thread After a Quarter Season
20. Minnesota Wild, 10-7-4
Last week: 26
Sean: 19
Dom: 20
Green flag: Jesper Wallstedt
Wallstedt just went nearly three hours’ worth of game time without allowing a goal, pushing his save percentage up to .926 and GSAx up to nearly four. That’s the sort of play that made Wallstedt a top prospect before a messy 2024-25 AHL season.
Red flag: They already paid Filip Gustavsson
There’s nothing wrong with having multiple options in net, and Gustavsson has been better than his .897 save percentage indicates, but that five-year, $34 million contract he signed all the way back in October might come back to haunt Minnesota.
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