This is the 2024-25 edition — an archived read. Read the 2026-27 report →
Filip Gustavsson
Minnesota Wild Goaltender
A .9309 in 39 games, then an .8995 in 45, and 111 career games to decide which is him.
| Season | Team | GP | W | L | OTL | GA | GAA | SO | SA | SV% |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2020-21 | OTT | 9 | 5 | 1 | 2 | 17 | 2.16 | 0 | 254 | .933 |
| 2021-22 | OTT | 18 | 5 | 12 | 1 | 62 | 3.55 | 0 | 574 | .892 |
| 2022-23 | MIN | 39 | 22 | 9 | 7 | 81 | 2.10 | 3 | 1173 | .931 |
| 2023-24 | MIN | 45 | 20 | 18 | 4 | 129 | 3.06 | 3 | 1283 | .899 |
| 2024-25 so far | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| Career | — | 111 | 52 | 40 | 14 | 289 | 2.73 | 6 | 3284 | .912 |
This Season So Far
The 2024-25 season has not started. The empty row above is his, and both it and this paragraph fill in on their own from the morning after he first plays: what he has done, what it is worth against his own last season, and the run he is on when the two disagree.
Last Season
45 games, 20-18-4, an .8995 save percentage and a 3.06 goals-against average with 3 shutouts on 1,283 shots faced.
The season before he had gone .9309 in 39 games. A fall of thirty-one points of save percentage in a year, behind the second-best chance suppression in hockey, and the club finished 28th at goaltending because of it.
The Physical Game
He is 6-2 and 184 and plays a quick, deep game, getting square early rather than covering ground.
Six career shutouts in 111 games. He is light for a modern goaltender and he compensates by being set before the shot arrives, which works until the puck moves laterally. The glove is the better hand.
The Mental Game
Rebound control is where the two seasons differ most; the .9309 year he swallowed the first shot and the .8995 year he did not.
He tracks through traffic well enough and he does not handle the puck much. One hundred and eleven career games is not enough to know which of the last two seasons is the player, and that uncertainty is the club’s whole problem.
The Intangibles
A second-round pick in 2016 out of Skelleftea, four seasons across two organisations, and 52 wins in 111 games at a career .9120.
He is 26 and was given the job on the strength of one very good season and did not hold it. Minnesota has run it back rather than replace him, which is either patience or the absence of an alternative.