{"id":335718,"date":"2026-05-16T15:51:53","date_gmt":"2026-05-16T10:21:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ebiztoday.news\/?p=335718"},"modified":"2026-05-16T15:51:53","modified_gmt":"2026-05-16T10:21:53","slug":"jesper-wallstedt-addresses-trade-rumors-after-loss-to-avalance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ebiztoday.news\/index.php\/2026\/05\/16\/jesper-wallstedt-addresses-trade-rumors-after-loss-to-avalance\/","title":{"rendered":"Jesper Wallstedt addresses trade rumors after loss to Avalance"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"article-3805516\">\n<p>Because of a powerful run down the stretch of the season, the Minnesota Wild decided to start out goaltender Jesper Wallstedt in the course of the Stanley Cup Playoffs, leading to a six-game series victory over the rival Dallas Stars within the Western Conference Quarterfinal.<\/p>\n<p>Nevertheless, their results against the Colorado Avalanche within the second round were different. Not only did Wallstedt allow eight goals to the Avalanche of their roller-coaster Game 1 loss, but he was also replaced by Filip Gustavsson for Game 2. Eventually returning to the web for the rest of the series, starting in Game 3, Wallstedt led the Wild to a Game 3 win.<\/p>\n<p>However the Avalanche proved an excessive amount of for the Wild to beat, defeating Minnesota in five games.<\/p>\n<p>Wallstedt, who spoke to media members on Friday as a part of their locker-room cleanout day, <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/RussoHockey\/status\/2055352998608409021?s=20\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">addressed trade rumors<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI don\u2019t think you\u2019re ever secure, but I hope I made a superb impression,\u201d Wallstedt said via Michael Russo on X, formerly often called Twitter.<\/p>\n<p>Taken by the Wild within the opening round (twentieth overall) of the 2021 NHL Draft, Wallstedt spent last season with the AHL affiliate Iowa Wild before earning a full-time roster spot this past fall in training camp. He posted a record of 18-9-6 with a 2.61 goals-against average, a .916 save percentage, and 4 shutouts in the course of the 2025-26 season.<\/p>\n<p>He&#8217;s also under contract for yet another 12 months with a salary cap hit of $2.2 million, and may grow to be a restricted free agent next summer.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>Because of a powerful run down the stretch of the season, the Minnesota Wild decided to start out goaltender Jesper Wallstedt in the course of the Stanley Cup Playoffs, leading to a six-game series victory over the rival Dallas Stars within the Western Conference Quarterfinal.  Nevertheless, their results against the Colorado Avalanche within the second round were different.<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Because of a powerful run down the stretch of the season, the Minnesota Wild decided to start out goaltender Jesper Wallstedt in the course of the Stanley Cup Playoffs, leading to a six-game series victory over the rival Dallas Stars within the Western Conference Quarterfinal. Nevertheless, their results against the Colorado Avalanche within the second [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":335719,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[338],"tags":[720,51793,40522,670,1296,3838,40523],"class_list":["post-335718","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sports","tag-addresses","tag-avalance","tag-jesper","tag-loss","tag-rumors","tag-trade","tag-wallstedt"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ebiztoday.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/335718","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ebiztoday.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ebiztoday.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ebiztoday.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ebiztoday.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=335718"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/ebiztoday.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/335718\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":335721,"href":"https:\/\/ebiztoday.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/335718\/revisions\/335721"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ebiztoday.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/335719"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ebiztoday.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=335718"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ebiztoday.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=335718"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ebiztoday.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=335718"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}