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Wild Player Grid | Day 14: Worst Goalie (All-Time)

  • September 26, 2024


With little competition, Brent Burns wins the award for “the one that got away” on day 13.

Next up – which Wild goaltender is considered the all-time worst?

To recap:

Most Underrated: Joel Eriksson Ek,
Most Overrated: Zach Parise,
Best: Kirill Kaprizov,
Worst (Top 3 Lines): Victor Rask,
Most Potential: Brock Faber,
Most Wasted Potential: Benoit Pouliot,
Best Defender: Jonas Brodin,
Best Goalie: Niklas Bäckström,
Fastest: Marian Gaborik,
Most Clutch: Mikko Koivu,
Worst Coach: Todd Richards,
The One That Got Away: Brent Burns

28 comments

  2. Fleury. Downvote me all you want but he has never been good for us and we put the team in a shit roster situation twice now by signing him (chasing off Talbot and now being stuck with three goalies).

  4. I was checking Wild goalies who played at least 82 games in our uni, and it looks like the two statistical worst are Flower and Stalock. I love both those guys I don’t want to put them on the grid here 🙁

  9. If someone steals this square from Darcy Kuemper then we had a truly awful legacy goalie that nearly sank the team. Jokes aside Kuemper was a Wild goalie in arguably our best defense era and still managed to put up less than stellar numbers and let a softy in per night. The comparison with Devan Dubnyk is outrageous: in a moment where we needed an average goalie to excel Duby was that goalie and a little more while Kuemps wasn’t even doing the bare minimum. There’s argument the team ruined him and props to him for turning his career after leaving the Wild, first by getting his revenge game (pitching a 3-0 shutout of the Wild while playing for the Arizona Coyotes) and then winning the Stanley cup with the Aves, but while wearing the Wild uniform Darcy Kuemper was truly our worst goalie, or at least the worst I’ve ever seen playing for a decent amount of time in our jersey.

  12. If we limit it to certain seasons of performance, then we can get away from putting flower in there.

    I’d wager the Kuemper Tantrum era was the worst. Play lights out for 23 minutes, let one goal in and every puck after that for the next 7 minutes.

    Or dubnyk letting the first shot in for most of the season as well as all the low angle goal line shots.

  15. Kuemper. Future play aside, he wasn’t great in Minnesota and had some big emotions that he struggled with. Flower’s stats aren’t great but I feel like the team plays better in front of him. Kuemper not so much

  17. Alright, per hockey reference –

    Worst) Zac Bierk – played one game and let in 6 goals for a .778 SV%

    2nd Worst) Dieter Kochan – one game, let in 5, .821 SV%

    3rd worst) Wade Dubielewicz – one game .853 SV%

    4th) John Curry – 2 games, .890 SV%

    my argument, is that these guys played minimal games because they weren’t NHL level tendies. This makes them worse than the full season stats that others are stating for Flower or Darcy.

    Gonna go with Niklas Svedberg here. I googled list of all goalies who have played a single game for the Wild, and his name came up, and I have ZERO recollection of him, so there we [go.Pe](http://go.Pe)

  18. Zac Bierk. Played 1 game in 2001. Gave up 6 goals on 27 shots. Worst save % in Wild history with at least 1 game played for the team

  20. Many people are saying Kuemper. And while I’m not saying their wrong, I’m going to say Bryzgalov.

    It’s only game, why you haf to be mad

  25. I guess of the guys that played a decent amount it’s Kemps. I remember going to one game and just from his body language during warm-ups you could tell he was going to get lit up.

  27. Everyone will try their hardest not to put flower in there because of how likable he is. He is just not good for us yet we continue to pretend he is because hes nice or makes a sweet spinning save once in a while. OP, just put a pink flower in the box, we don’t need to see a pic of our favorite off the ice player here.

  28. Can we separate early Dubnyk from late Dubnyk? I realize he had some personal stuff going on (did we ever actually find out what? – not that its really any of our business) but damn he was frustrating to watch his last two years here…..letting puck dump ins and things that shouldn’t even be called shots go in…Or always giving one up in the first 3 minutes of the game – so we’re just automatically playing from behind…

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