{"id":87911,"date":"2020-10-09T13:02:26","date_gmt":"2020-10-09T17:02:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/?p=87911"},"modified":"2020-10-09T13:07:19","modified_gmt":"2020-10-09T17:07:19","slug":"wild-signs-goaltender-cam-talbot","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/2020\/10\/09\/wild-signs-goaltender-cam-talbot\/","title":{"rendered":"Minnesota Wild Sign Goaltender Cam Talbot"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Minnesota Wild have signed free-agent goaltender <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.hockey-reference.com\/players\/t\/talboca01.html?utm_campaign=Linker&amp;utm_source=direct&amp;utm_medium=linker-\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Cam Talbot<\/a><\/strong>. The team was in the market for a new goalie, after Devan Dubnyk got <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/2020\/10\/05\/devan-dubnyk-traded-to-the-san-jose-sharks\/\" target=\"_self\">traded to<\/a> the San Jose Sharks earlier in the month. Talbot&#8217;s new deal is three-years long and has a grand price of $11 million, or roughly $3.67 million per year.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Cam Talbot is going to the <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/mnwild?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">#mnwild<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Frank Seravalli (@frank_seravalli) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/frank_seravalli\/status\/1314611141151260680?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">October 9, 2020<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<h2>Minnesota Wild Signs Cam Talbot<\/h2>\n<p>Talbot is a 33-year-old goaltender who has played nine seasons in the NHL with the<a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/category\/rangers\/\" target=\"_self\"> New York Rangers<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/category\/oilers\/\" target=\"_self\">Edmonton Oilers<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/category\/flyers\/\" target=\"_self\">Philadelphia Flyers<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/category\/flames\/\" target=\"_self\">Calgary Flames<\/a>. Over his career, Talbot has played in 324 games, won 155 of them, posted 24 shutouts and has a career 2.60 goals-against-average and .916 save percentage.<\/p>\n<p>Last season in Calgary, Talbot split regular season games with <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.hockey-reference.com\/players\/r\/rittida01.html?utm_campaign=Linker&amp;utm_source=direct&amp;utm_medium=linker-\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">David Rittich<\/a><\/strong>, but became the team&#8217;s starter in the playoffs. In 26 regular season games,\u00a0 Talbot won 12 and had a .919 save percentage, which was 13th in the league. In 10 playoff games, Talbot had a .924 save percentage.<\/p>\n<p>Talbot had an unusual pathway to the NHL. He was never drafted and played college hockey with the University of Huntsville-Alabama. The school that only has him and <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.hockey-reference.com\/players\/r\/rossja01.html?utm_campaign=Linker&amp;utm_source=direct&amp;utm_medium=linker-\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Jared Ross<\/a><\/strong> (13 career NHL games) as their NHL alumni. In his third season, Talbot had a .925 save percentage and led his school to their second-ever NCAA tournament berth. At the end of the season he signed with the Rangers. Three-years later he was a full-time NHL goalie.<\/p>\n<h3>What this Means for the Future<\/h3>\n<p>The Wild are getting a reliable goalie in Talbot. He&#8217;s not a star, but he can be their starting goalie, or be in a tandem pairing and give them a quality start. Talbot is at his best when he faces many shots that he is reasonably expected to stop. Among the top-40 goalies in ice-time over the past three seasons, Talbot has the sixth-worst high-danger save percentage. He&#8217;s a goalie than can win a game his team is expected to win, but he won&#8217;t be counted on to steal many of them.<\/p>\n<p>Main Photo:<\/p>\n<p><a id=\"HtyG0fVKSBRbtRV3uyFpHw\" class=\"gie-single\" style=\"color: #a7a7a7; text-decoration: none; font-weight: normal !important; border: none; display: inline-block;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.gettyimages.com\/detail\/1267042286\" 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:'HtyG0fVKSBRbtRV3uyFpHw',sig:'ewDKlOejL86lt6j6zIanqPEoSYSBfgOBlNM4q-gex9w=',w:'594px',h:'409px',items:'1267042286',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 signed free-agent goaltender Cam Talbot. The team was in the market for a new goalie, after Devan Dubnyk got traded to the San Jose Sharks earlier in the month. Talbot&#8217;s new deal is three-years long and has a grand price of $11 million, or roughly $3.67 million per year. 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