{"id":475171,"date":"2025-10-04T10:27:48","date_gmt":"2025-10-04T14:27:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/?p=475171"},"modified":"2025-10-04T10:27:48","modified_gmt":"2025-10-04T14:27:48","slug":"minnesota-wild-extend-emerging-goaltender","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/2025\/10\/04\/minnesota-wild-extend-emerging-goaltender\/","title":{"rendered":"Minnesota Wild Extend Emerging Goaltender"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/2025\/09\/30\/minnesota-wild-forward-out-for-at-least-two-months\/\" target=\"_self\">Minnesota Wild<\/a> continue to make moves before the start of the regular season. <a  href=\"https:\/\/www.sportsnet.ca\/nhl\/article\/wild-signing-g-filip-gustavsson-to-five-year-34m-contract-extension\/\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">News emerged<\/a> on Saturday morning that the Wild have signed <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hockey-reference.com\/players\/g\/gustafi01.html?utm_medium=linker&amp;utm_source=lastwordonsports.com&amp;utm_campaign=2025-10-04_hr\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Filip Gustavsson<\/a> to a contract extension. The deal is a five-year extension worth $34 million. This works out to a $6.8 million average cap hit and runs until the end of the 2030-31 season.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"bluesky-embed\" data-bluesky-uri=\"at:\/\/did:plc:udj5sty2gbhfb4yisnkxd3aq\/app.bsky.feed.post\/3m2erbqiqss27\" data-bluesky-cid=\"bafyreieklxhesq4zc7h7g775peuufmatmkdwyko77orewx7znp7o4x6kd4\">\n<p lang=\"en\">#mnwild sign Filip Gustavsson to five-year, $34 million extensionSTORY&gt;&gt;&gt;www.nytimes.com\/athletic\/668&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; <a  href=\"https:\/\/bsky.app\/profile\/did:plc:udj5sty2gbhfb4yisnkxd3aq?ref_src=embed\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Michael Russo (@russohockey.bsky.social)<\/a> <a  href=\"https:\/\/bsky.app\/profile\/did:plc:udj5sty2gbhfb4yisnkxd3aq\/post\/3m2erbqiqss27?ref_src=embed\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">2025-10-04T14:12:36.319Z<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/embed.bsky.app\/static\/embed.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<h2>Minnesota Wild Ink Filip Gustavsson to Contract Extension<\/h2>\n<p>Gustavsson has played for the <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/2025\/10\/03\/ottawa-senators-new-jersey-devils-friday-afternoon-nhl-pre-season-trade-2025-26-hockey-news\/\" target=\"_self\">Ottawa Senators<\/a> and the Wild across his five-year NHL career. Last season, the Swede registered a 31-19-6 record with a 2.56 goals-against average. The 27-year-old also registered five shutouts and a .914 save percentage.<\/p>\n<p>He has a career mark of 83-59-20 with a .913 save percentage and 2.67 GAA. The <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/2025\/09\/30\/pittsburgh-penguins-koivunen\/\" target=\"_self\">Pittsburgh Penguins<\/a> originally drafted Gustavsson in the second round, 55th overall, of the 2016 NHL Draft. He was dealt to Ottawa in 2018 before debuting with the Senators in the 2020-21 season. Gustavsson was then subsequently traded to Minnesota in 2023.<\/p>\n<p>He&#8217;s also represented his native Sweden at the international level. Gustavsson was part of the silver-medal-winning squad at the 2018 IIHF World Juniors. He was also a member of the Sweden senior team that won the bronze medal at the 2024 IIHF World Championships.<\/p>\n<h3>What It Means<\/h3>\n<p>Wild General Manager <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hockey-reference.com\/players\/g\/gueribi01.html?utm_medium=linker&amp;utm_source=lastwordonsports.com&amp;utm_campaign=2025-10-04_hr\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Bill Guerin<\/a> isn&#8217;t resting on his laurels after an already massive week. Minnesota had <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/2025\/09\/30\/minnesota-wild-star-signs-massive-extension\/\" target=\"_self\">already signed superstar<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hockey-reference.com\/players\/k\/kapriki01.html?utm_medium=linker&amp;utm_source=lastwordonsports.com&amp;utm_campaign=2025-10-04_hr\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Kirill Kaprizov<\/a> to the richest contract in NHL history, with eight years and an average cap hit of $17 million.<\/p>\n<p>Minnesota signing Gustavasson to this extension shores up the team&#8217;s crease for the next few seasons. The Wild have locked down some important players in the past year by <a  href=\"https:\/\/puckpedia.com\/team\/minnesota-wild#\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">taking care of deals<\/a> for <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hockey-reference.com\/players\/f\/faberbr01.html?utm_medium=linker&amp;utm_source=lastwordonsports.com&amp;utm_campaign=2025-10-04_hr\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Brock Faber<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hockey-reference.com\/players\/m\/middlja01.html?utm_medium=linker&amp;utm_source=lastwordonsports.com&amp;utm_campaign=2025-10-04_hr\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Jacob Middleton<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Guerin is seemingly able to exercise his newfound cap freedom after the dead money from the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hockey-reference.com\/players\/p\/parisza01.html?utm_medium=linker&amp;utm_source=lastwordonsports.com&amp;utm_campaign=2025-10-04_hr\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Zach Parise<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hockey-reference.com\/players\/s\/suterry01.html?utm_medium=linker&amp;utm_source=lastwordonsports.com&amp;utm_campaign=2025-10-04_hr\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Ryan Suter<\/a> buyouts. Getting Gustavsson&#8217;s extension done is another big piece of business for the club.<\/p>\n<p><em>Main photo by: Matt Krohn-Imagn Images<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Minnesota Wild continue to make moves before the start of the regular season. News emerged on Saturday morning that the Wild have signed Filip Gustavsson to a contract extension. The deal is a five-year extension worth $34 million. This works out to a $6.8 million average cap hit and runs until the end of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2352,"featured_media":460084,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"no","_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":[30,4547,34,4548],"tags":[3175,2433,2393,6248],"class_list":["post-475171","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-wild","category-hockey","category-news","category-nhl","tag-bill-guerin","tag-filip-gustavsson","tag-kirill-kaprizov","tag-minnesota-wild-news"],"modified_by":"Dan Mount, Editor","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/475171","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\/2352"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=475171"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/475171\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":475174,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/475171\/revisions\/475174"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/460084"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=475171"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=475171"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=475171"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}