This is the 2025-26 edition — an archived read. Read the 2026-27 report →
Filip Gustavsson
Minnesota Wild Goaltender
A .9138 across 58 games and 5 shutouts, and 8.5 goals of goaltending on a club that scored 214.
| 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 | MIN | 58 | 31 | 19 | 6 | 146 | 2.56 | 5 | 1693 | .914 |
| 2025-26 so far | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| Career | — | 169 | 83 | 59 | 20 | 435 | 2.67 | 11 | 4977 | .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.