{"id":40809,"date":"2019-01-29T16:03:45","date_gmt":"2019-01-29T21:03:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/?p=40809"},"modified":"2020-12-26T16:36:55","modified_gmt":"2020-12-26T21:36:55","slug":"minnesota-wild-and-alex-stalock-agree-on-three-year-extension","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/2019\/01\/29\/minnesota-wild-and-alex-stalock-agree-on-three-year-extension\/","title":{"rendered":"Minnesota Wild and Alex Stalock Agree on Three-Year Extension"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonhockey.com\/nhl-teams\/wild\/\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Minnesota\u00a0Wild<\/a> have signed goaltender\u00a0<strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.hockey-reference.com\/players\/s\/staloal01.html?utm_campaign=Linker&amp;utm_source=direct&amp;utm_medium=linker-\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Alex Stalock<\/a><\/strong> to a three-year contract worth $2.335 million, or $785,000 per season. This contract carries him through the\u00a02021-22 season.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Staying in the <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/StateOfHockey?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">#StateOfHockey<\/a>. <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/mnwild?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">#mnwild<\/a> and goaltender Alex Stalock have agreed to a three-year, $2.355 million, one-way contract: <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/ihuw4X2Zzz\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">https:\/\/t.co\/ihuw4X2Zzz<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/FtJaXxDUVH\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">pic.twitter.com\/FtJaXxDUVH<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Minnesota Wild (@mnwild) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/mnwild\/status\/1090308601367822336?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">January 29, 2019<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<h1><a href=\"http:\/\/www.hockey-reference.com\/players\/s\/staloal01.html?utm_campaign=Linker&amp;utm_source=direct&amp;utm_medium=linker-\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Alex Stalock<\/a> Stays Put in Minnesota<\/h1>\n<p>This season, Stalock played in 14\u00a0games with 10 starts for the Wild. He has a 6-5 record with a 2.92 goals against average and .894 save percentage. Stalock has also recorded two assists this season.<\/p>\n<p>Over his eight-year NHL career, Stalock has played for <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonhockey.com\/nhl-teams\/sharks\/\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">San Jose Sharks<\/a> and Minnesota Wild. He has put up a 41-35-11 career record in 106 career appearances with 81 career starts. He also has a 2.55 goals against average, .909 save percentage, and five shutouts. Stalock has a career 0-1 record in four career Stanley Cup Playoff games, with a 1.82\u00a0goals against average, and .931 save percentage.<\/p>\n<p>He also has added three career assists.<\/p>\n<h1>What This Means for the Future<\/h1>\n<p>Stalock has put up solid numbers in his three years as a back-up for the Wild. This deal shows that the Wild have liked what they&#8217;ve seen from Stalock. The duo\u00a0of <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.hockey-reference.com\/players\/d\/dubnyde01.html?utm_campaign=Linker&amp;utm_source=direct&amp;utm_medium=linker-\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Devan Dubnyk<\/a><\/strong> and Stalock have carried the Wild into playoff contention. However, they have failed to get past the first round.<\/p>\n<p>In his two-plus\u00a0seasons with the Wild, he is 17-16 with a 2.80 goals against average, .907 save percentage and one shutout. For the Wild, this is a smart move as Stalock comes at a cheap price of less than a million per year. It wouldn&#8217;t be a shock if Stalock starts to see more playing time over the next few years as teams like the <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonhockey.com\/nhl-teams\/capitals\/\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Washington Capitals<\/a> have been giving their starters about 50 games a season if they are playoff bound. With this being the case, all teams are going to need a reliable back-up to pick up the rest of the starts which Stalock has proven he can do.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/11\/2019\/01\/1-14-2019_FlyersvsWild_3rd_credKateFrese-2.jpg\" alt=\"\">PHILADELPHIA, PA. &#8211; Philadelphia Flyers forward <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hockey-reference.com\/players\/s\/simmowa01.html?utm_campaign=Linker&amp;utm_source=direct&amp;utm_medium=linker-\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Wayne Simmonds<\/a> scores on Minnesota Wild goalie Alex Stalock in a Jan. 14 game at the Wells Fargo Center. (Kate Frese\/Last Word on Sports.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Minnesota\u00a0Wild have signed goaltender\u00a0Alex Stalock to a three-year contract worth $2.335 million, or $785,000 per season. This contract carries him through the\u00a02021-22 season. Staying in the #StateOfHockey. #mnwild and goaltender Alex Stalock have agreed to a three-year, $2.355 million, one-way contract: https:\/\/t.co\/ihuw4X2Zzz pic.twitter.com\/FtJaXxDUVH &mdash; Minnesota Wild (@mnwild) January 29, 2019 Alex Stalock Stays Put [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2360,"featured_media":40816,"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":[30,34],"tags":[1208,241,5738,221,2569,955],"class_list":["post-40809","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-wild","category-news","tag-alex-stalock","tag-devan-dubnyk","tag-hockey-news","tag-minnesota-wild","tag-news","tag-nhl-news"],"modified_by":"Dan Mount, Editor","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40809","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\/2360"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=40809"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40809\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/40816"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=40809"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=40809"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=40809"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}