The Minnesota Wild have signed starting goaltender Filip Gustavsson to a five-year, $34 million extension, general manager Bill Guerin announced Saturday.
It's the second major piece of business for the Wild this week after they signed star winger Kirill Kaprizov to a record-breaking eight-year, $136 million deal Tuesday.
Gustavsson, 27, was entering the final year of his contract that paid him $3.75 million annually. The Swedish goaltender emerged as one of the NHL's most dependable starters last year, playing a career-high 58 games. He went 31-19-6 with a 2.56 goals-against average and a .914 save percentage and finished sixth in Vezina Trophy voting, securing two third-place votes.
A 2016 second-round draft pick by the Pittsburgh Penguins , Gustavsson spent the first two year