Player Discussion Filip Gustavsson

[AKL]

We already did re-sign him for two more years after this one, and this is his 4th year in the NHL. I would've been fine with a slight drop off from last year, but this year he has been borderline terrible, and not even close to what he was last year. I think that he is the greatest reason that we are not in playoff position this year.

I don't think he's any worse than the team in front of him. This is a bottom 10 caliber team. They're 4-1-1 in their last 6 because Kaprizov-Ek-Boldy have gone supernova the last two weeks, but had they not, we're not getting any help anywhere else in the lineup, this team would still be 6th/7th worst in the league. And the defense doesn't need to be written about anymore than it already has either, but this is a roster where Zach Bogosian is a regular and plays often in the top four. Merrill and Mermis are AHL players. No goalie would look good behind this team.

 

[Dr Jan Itor]

It's too bad he couldn't have at least middled what he was last year vs. what he's been this year.

I still feel it was an absolutely defensible extension.

 

[Dr Jan Itor]

Also, very small sample size, but he's given up 16 goals in in the 8 games where Brodin/Faber/Spurgeon/Middleton were all playing, with a .920 save %.

 

[Sweetnut]

Nr 1 goalie in the NHL with 2.08 GAA and split nr 1 with .927%
What a bounceback year he's having.
So good at the moment. Calm and collected, tracks the puck so well.

 

[ThatGuy22]

Nr 1 goalie in the NHL with 2.08 GAA and split nr 1 with .927%
What a bounceback year he's having.
So good at the moment. Calm and collected, tracks the puck so well.

Wilds D game is also making it quite easy for him. But he's making the stops he needs to, and wasn't last year.

 

[Prior]

When he’s on, he looks like Backstrom. Always square, tracking pucks, and no rebounds to be had.

 

[Minnewildsota]

Is anybody else concerned that Gus is playing so well? When things come easy you tend to pick up bad habits that could hurt the team in the long run. It could potentially cost us a Cup. Then the team will leave again and we'll be stuck without a men's professional hockey team for who knows how long.

 

[NHL1674]

Is anybody else concerned that Gus is playing so well? When things come easy you tend to pick up bad habits that could hurt the team in the long run. It could potentially cost us a Cup. Then the team will leave again and we'll be stuck without a men's professional hockey team for who knows how long.

 

[57special]

Is anybody else concerned that Gus is playing so well? When things come easy you tend to pick up bad habits that could hurt the team in the long run. It could potentially cost us a Cup. Then the team will leave again and we'll be stuck without a men's professional hockey team for who knows how long.

No

 

[thestonedkoala]

Minnesota has a really good dilemma on their hands.