{"id":103809,"date":"2021-07-28T12:59:59","date_gmt":"2021-07-28T16:59:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/?p=103809"},"modified":"2021-07-28T12:59:59","modified_gmt":"2021-07-28T16:59:59","slug":"alex-goligoski-minnesota-wild","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/2021\/07\/28\/alex-goligoski-minnesota-wild\/","title":{"rendered":"Alex Goligoski Signs with the Minnesota Wild"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Minnesota Wild have added a veteran to the blue line, inking unrestricted free agent Alex Goligoski. He signs for one-year and $5 million.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Reppin\u2019 the <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/StateOfHockey?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">#StateOfHockey<\/a>!<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/mnwild?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">#mnwild<\/a> has agrees to terms with defenseman Alex Goligoski to a one-year, $5 million contract.<\/p>\n<p>More \ud83d\uddde \u00bb <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/IIIhkJaFX9\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">https:\/\/t.co\/IIIhkJaFX9<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/UydLAkyoXb\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">pic.twitter.com\/UydLAkyoXb<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Minnesota Wild (@mnwild) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/mnwild\/status\/1420425108733276163?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">July 28, 2021<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<h2>Alex Goligoski Joins the Minnesota Wild<\/h2>\n<p>Goligoski joins four other fellow blueliners on the Coyotes squad who have their contracts ending. It will be interesting to see how the defence changes depending on which players re-sign and which don&#8217;t. For Goligoski, his best season in Arizona was first, 2016-17. That&#8217;s when he gathered six goals and 30 assists while playing all 82 games. He is a versatile player who can play the right side or left even though he is a left-hand shot. His work on the power play and distributing the puck are definite assets for this new team.<\/p>\n<p>Nicknamed &#8220;Goose&#8221;, he is still playing a strong game even at his age. He can certainly help young players as a mentor to their game when he joins his new team the Minnesota Wild.<\/p>\n<h3>What Goligoski Can Add to His New Team<\/h3>\n<p>Anytime a puck moving defenceman is available teams want to add them to their rosters. Goligoski is no stranger to starting plays in his own zone. He&#8217;s adept at hitting streaking forwards with passes into the offensive zone. He will certainly be a player who can drive the offence for his new team. He&#8217;s not afraid to block shots as he has demonstrated by over 1,500 blocks to his credit during his 14-year NHL career.<\/p>\n<p>The Minnesota Wild have themselves a consummate professional who comes to the rink every game with one thing in mind&#8230; winning.<\/p>\n<p>When the Arizona Coyotes signed then free agent <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hockey-reference.com\/players\/g\/goligal01.html?utm_campaign=Linker&amp;utm_source=direct&amp;utm_medium=linker-\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Alex Goligoski<\/a> in June of 2016, they were excited to be able to attract a veteran defenceman. He is a workhorse who logs more than 22 minutes of ice time a game. His contract was expiring at the end of the 2020-21 season. He signed a five-year $27.375 million deal to play in the desert. He is now 36 years old.<\/p>\n<p>Main Photo:<\/p>\n<p><a id=\"ahwrqocKQfxLbqjL1mgV4w\" class=\"gie-single\" style=\"color: #a7a7a7; text-decoration: none; font-weight: normal !important; border: none; display: inline-block;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.gettyimages.com\/detail\/1231456632\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Embed from Getty Images<\/a><script>window.gie=window.gie||function(c){(gie.q=gie.q||[]).push(c)};gie(function(){gie.widgets.load({id:'ahwrqocKQfxLbqjL1mgV4w',sig:'Tw00eVzw03rfMzyeFohxeaAMAu_yF87KoPSBHzA6vMc=',w:'594px',h:'396px',items:'1231456632',caption: true ,tld:'com',is360: false })});<\/script><script src='\/\/embed-cdn.gettyimages.com\/widgets.js' charset='utf-8' async><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Minnesota Wild have added a veteran to the blue line, inking unrestricted free agent Alex Goligoski. He signs for one-year and $5 million. Reppin\u2019 the #StateOfHockey! The #mnwild has agrees to terms with defenseman Alex Goligoski to a one-year, $5 million contract. More \ud83d\uddde \u00bb https:\/\/t.co\/IIIhkJaFX9 pic.twitter.com\/UydLAkyoXb \u2014 Minnesota Wild (@mnwild) July 28, 2021 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2959,"featured_media":103865,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","sfio_featured_image":false,"sfio_embed_code":"","_ef_editorial_meta_date_first-draft-date":"","_ef_editorial_meta_paragraph_assignment":"","_ef_editorial_meta_checkbox_needs-photo":"","_ef_editorial_meta_number_word-count":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[21,4547,30,34,4548],"tags":[6688,172,5738,955],"class_list":["post-103809","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-mammoth","category-hockey","category-wild","category-news","category-nhl","tag-2021-nhl-trade-deadline","tag-alex-goligoski","tag-hockey-news","tag-nhl-news"],"modified_by":"Ben Kerr","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/103809","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2959"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=103809"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/103809\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/103865"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=103809"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=103809"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=103809"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}