The Minnesota Wild are locking up their core for the foreseeable future.
Goaltender Filip Gustavsson is signing a five-year, $34 million contract extension with the Wild, the team announced Saturday.
The deal is worth $6.8 million in average annual value and will begin in the 2026-27 season, going through the 2030-31 campaign.
Gustavsson was set to become an unrestricted free agent after this season. He originally signed a three-year, $11.25 million deal with the Wild in 2023.
The 27-year-old enjoyed a solid season between the pipes last year, earning a 31-19-6 record with a .914 save percentage and a 2.56 goals-against average.
His play helped him finish sixth in Vezina Trophy voting and 18th for the Hart Trophy.
Originally selected by the Pittsburgh Penguins 55th overall in the second round of the 2016 NHL Draft, Gustavsson was traded to the Ottawa Senators in 2018 before debuting in Canada’s capital in the 2020-21 season. He was then dealt to Minnesota in 2023.
Over his five-year career, the six-foot-two, 184-pound netminder has tallied an 83-59-20 record with a .913 save percentage and a 2.67 GAA.
The move to sign Gustavsson comes after the Wild also penned superstar forward Kirill Kaprizov to an eight-year, $136 million contract — the richest in NHL history — on Tuesday.
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