Jonas Brodin fends off both Spurge and Ryan Suter to claim the award for Best Defender in franchise history!
As a recap of the previous awards:
Most Underrated: Joel Eriksson Ek
Most Overrated: Zach Parise
Best: Kirill Kaprizov
Worst (Top 3 Lines): Victor Rask
Most Potential: Brock Faber
Most Wasted Potential: Benoit Pouliot
Best Defender: Jonas Brodin
For Day 8 – which goalie has been the best in Wild history and why?
by Ok-Curve5569
19 Comments
I’d give it to Dubnyk. He was the main guy when I started following the wild so I have a soft spot for him. Argument can be made for Backstrom or Fernandez.
My heart wants Josh Harding to take this one.
Niklas Backstrom. Dude had .915 or better in 5 seasons with us and was a top 10 Vezina finisher 4 times. The heart of the team really prior to suter/parise.
Tough call on not choosing Manny Fernandez though. He had some great years on awful wild teams.
Best SV% and GAA. Simply has to be Anton Khudobin.
Niklas Backstrom. He just barely beats Fernandez and Dub for me. Harding should have been here though 🙁
Backstrom by a wide margin
It’s Dubie. But this one is a tough one. Remember manny and Rollie had the Lemaire 2-line pass neutral zone trap clutching hooking to help them.
1) Backstrom
2) Manny
3) Dub
Roloson. Because he was my first jersey i ever got as a kid.
Backstrom
backstrom
Bryzgalov 4 fun
Backstrom
Backstrom.
Can you adjust the table to add names for each player selected?
I’m going to be pedantic and say Fleury. Out of all the Wild goalies at their prime, he was the best. He just wasn’t playing for us at the time.
JOSH HARDING JOSH HARDING JOSH HARDING
It’s gotta be dubnyk, dude was a backup at best until he came here and carried the team on his back for multiple seasons
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Backstrom! I remember being at his first appearance (at least at the X) and thought his name was Blackstorm. Reading was hard for me as a child.