ST. LOUIS — Minnesota Wild goalie Filip Gustavsson saw an opportunity, and he cashed in. Gustavsson capped the Wild's 4-1 win over the St.
Louis Blues with the rare goalie goal. The 26-year-old gloved a Pavel Buchnevich shot from the blue line, dropped it to his stick and lifted a shot high into the air that stayed true and slid into an empty net with 8.1 seconds left. «They probably try and make me get a whistle and get a faceoff in our zone, and they just put it straight in the glove and I try and put it down as quick as I could,» Gustavsson said. «It just laid perfect there on the ice, and I just try and shoot as hard as I could.» It was Gustavsson's first goal on any level and the first ever goalie goal in Wild franchise history.
Gustavsson was thinking about trying it after talking to teammate and fellow goalie Marc-Andre Fleury during a Blues timeout with 34 seconds left. «Flower looked up at the board and he's like, 'Yeah, we're up two goals, you should probably try it.
If you get the chance, you're shooting right?'» Gustavsson said. «I was like, yeah, maybe I should.» Gustavsson is the 15th goalie to score a goal in NHL history and the first since Pittsburgh's Tristan Jarry on Nov.