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Filip Gustavsson

Minnesota Wild Goaltender

A .9138 across 58 games and 5 shutouts, and 8.5 goals of goaltending on a club that scored 228.

SeasonTeamGPWLOTLGAGAASOSASV%
2020-21OTT9512172.160254.933
2021-22OTT185121623.550574.892
2022-23MIN392297812.1031173.931
2023-24MIN45201841293.0631283.899
2024-25MIN58311961462.5651693.914
2025-26 so far——————————
Career—1698359204352.67114977.913

This Season So Far

The 2025-26 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

31-19-6 in 58 games, .9138 with a 2.56 average and 5 shutouts on 1,693 shots.

Minnesota’s goaltending came in 8.5 goals better than the chances faced, 12th in the league, behind a defence that was 9th at suppressing them and an attack that was 29th at creating them. He faced the fifth-most shots in the league and the club’s whole season was built on him.

The Physical Game

6-2 and 184, and light, and the game is quick and technical rather than large. He is square, he tracks well, and the depth in the crease is judged rather than fixed.

The rebound control is decent and the recovery is good. What he cannot do is cover a net by occupying it — a screened point shot he does not see is a goal — and behind a club that concedes as many perimeter shots as this one that matters more than usual.

The Mental Game

A career that has swung sharply between excellent and ordinary — a .931 season, a .899 season, and this one — with no obvious explanation for either direction.

There is no record of him unravelling within a game. The record of unravelling within a season is the concern, and it has now happened once in four years here.

The Intangibles

A second-round pick, two organisations, and the starting job on a club that has no alternative.

At 27 the projection is a .910 goaltender who plays 55 games. Jesper Wallstedt, 22, stopped .8431 in 2 games, which is not a sample, and he remains the organisation’s plan.

What kind of player

The searchable half of the report. The first group is computed from the season's own data; the rest are read out of the prose above, and each one carries the sentence that produced it. A subject the report never raised is simply absent.

  • a strengthread out of the prose, and claimed
  • ordinaryraised, and called ordinary
  • he lacks itraised, and he does not have it

Each computed tag also says how well its measure holds up from one season to the next, because a tag describes a season that has finished and a reader will assume it predicts the one coming. Some do and some do not, and the gap is wide: five-on-five workload repeats well, scoring late does not repeat at all.

  • tracks-traffica strength· finds it through a screen

    “He is square, he tracks well”

  • rebound-controlpresent and ordinary· where the second chance ends up

    “The rebound control is decent”

  • lateral-recoverya strength· post-to-post, and across the slot

    “the recovery is good”

  • plays-deephe lacks it· takes the net away by occupying it

    “What he cannot do is cover a net by occupying it — a screened point shot he does not see is a goal”