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Article: Jesper Wallstedt Feels Ready for Wild Backup Role


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Wally would need to have an unbelievable season for the Wild to let Gus depart via trade or UFA, which seems unlikely at this point.  If the Wild are entering the win now window of contending, we're going to need both Gus/Wally, but especially Gus, you don't roll the dice on your number true 1 goalie option, letting a 27 yr old go in favor of an unproven 22 yr old.  If Gus starts well enough, I hope the Wild extend him before Xmas.  After investing in $17M in KK97, Gus is looking like the Wild's best option as starter for the next couple years.

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1 hour ago, Citizen Strife said:

Wally and Gus both look decent to start the season.  The major thing is 2-3 goals per game and mitigating the weird 4-7 goal ones that are bound to happen.

Cal Petersen looked decent to start the season, the only guy between the pipes that stood out in a bad way was Hlavaj.

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2 hours ago, 0 Stanley Cups said:

Wally would need to have an unbelievable season for the Wild to let Gus depart via trade or UFA, which seems unlikely at this point.  If the Wild are entering the win now window of contending, we're going to need both Gus/Wally, but especially Gus, you don't roll the dice on your number true 1 goalie option, letting a 27 yr old go in favor of an unproven 22 yr old.  If Gus starts well enough, I hope the Wild extend him before Xmas.  After investing in $17M in KK97, Gus is looking like the Wild's best option as starter for the next couple years.

The wild defense has had a habit of making good goalies look great.  

We've never had a guy like Oettinger/Vasilevskiy/Hellebuyck/Bobrowsky who have nights when they're unsolveable.  We've made good goalies look great by an aggressive backcheck with defensive minded forwards and employing guys on the back-end who are defense-first guys who don't get caught cheating in the offensive zone.

I remember about a year ago on this board, there were plenty of voices who wanted to jettison GusBus into the sea after his '23-'24 season

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