Filip Gustavsson saved the victory for the Minnesota Wild and was also responsible for the last goal of the match.
The ice hockey series in the NHL was seen in a special way rare moment Finnish time early Wednesday morning, when the Minnesota Wild’s Swedish goaltender Filip Gustavsson26, shot the puck into the St. Louis Blues goal. Wild beat the Blues 4–1 in the away game.
The goal was even more of a power play goal, because a moment earlier St. Louis Philip Broberg had taken a 2+2 minute penalty for a high stick.
Gustavsson was joking in the interview after the match, that in the future he should be included in the discussions when thinking about who will be taken for the upper hand in the future.
– I should be at force majeure meetings in the future. Let’s see how to do it.
It was the first time in the Wild’s club history that the team’s goalkeeper scored a goal. Gustavsson made 27 saves in the win.
As the Wild’s second goalie, the exchange hatches opened in the match Marc-Andre Fleury was one smile after his colleague’s goal.
Fleury too revealed supplier To Michael Russo after the match that he and Gustavsson had talked about trying to score during the TV break. The experienced Canadian goalkeeper had called Gustavsson over and urged him to try for a goal if he got the chance.
It seemed to pay off.
– I came to the bench in overtime and Fleury said to me: “Hey, should you shoot if you score now that we’re two goals down?” To which I replied: “Yeah, I should try it,” Gustavsson said in an interview.
Rinne and Noronen succeeded from the Finns
A goal scored by a goalie is not an everyday occurrence in hockey and especially in the NHL. Last season, the goalie of the Pittsburgh Penguins succeeded in the trick Tristan Jarry.
Before Jarrya, 13 goalkeepers in the series’ 107-year history had managed to do the same.
Finnish goalkeepers Pekka Rinne (Nashville Predators 2019–20) and Mika Noronen (Buffalo Sabers 2003–04) have scored goals in the NHL.
Photo of Mika Norose attached at 7:05 am.