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Wild Player Grid | Day 8: Best Goalie (All-Time)

  • September 20, 2024


Jonas Brodin fends off both Spurge and Ryan Suter to claim the award for Best Defender in franchise history!

As a recap of the previous awards:

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

For Day 8 – which goalie has been the best in Wild history and why?

35 comments

  1. I’d give it to Dubnyk. He was the main guy when I started following the wild so I have a soft spot for him. Argument can be made for Backstrom or Fernandez.

  3. Niklas Backstrom. Dude had .915 or better in 5 seasons with us and was a top 10 Vezina finisher 4 times. The heart of the team really prior to suter/parise.

    Tough call on not choosing Manny Fernandez though. He had some great years on awful wild teams.

  4. Niklas Backstrom. He just barely beats Fernandez and Dub for me. Harding should have been here though 🙁

  6. It’s Dubie. But this one is a tough one. Remember manny and Rollie had the Lemaire 2-line pass neutral zone trap clutching hooking to help them.

  13. It’s gotta be dubnyk, dude was a backup at best until he came here and carried the team on his back for multiple seasons

  15. Backstrom! I remember being at his first appearance (at least at the X) and thought his name was Blackstorm. Reading was hard for me as a child.

  17. Backstrom. Honorary mention to left handed Josh Harding who kicked ass and made his tandem better by throwing off opponents with an opposite hand. He did great in shootouts (unless you’re Patrick Kane who made Harding look like a B2 Bantam)

  18. Backstrom. Him and Dubnyk have very similar stats when they were at their best but Backstrom did it for longer

  24. I’m not a fan for long enough to know the oldest guys, but since the goalies I saw play for the Wild are Dub, Kuemper, Stalock, Kahkonen, Talbot, MAF, Gus and Wallstedt it has to be someone else. MAF would be a legacy pick and Gus had like half a season of being elite before regressing.

  27. If this discussion goes anything like yesterday’s, we will be trying to figure out who’s the best *goaltender* and who’s the best *goalie*. God bless.

  33. If just evaluating best to play for the Wild, it’s MAF by a WIDE margin, but best for contributions to the Wild I vote Backstrom or the Manny/Rollie the Goalie combo

  34. The Neutral Zone Trap. It’s durable, it never retires, it’s made basically all of these goalies.

    If I have to pick a guy… Roloson, he’s the only one who really thrived elsewhere, IMO.

  35. Well, flower is our HOF goaltender…

    But Backstrom for what they’ve done while here. Won a Jennings, which should make this conversation pretty unanimous

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