Minnesota Wild Goalie Filip Gustavsson Now Has More Goals Than Connor McDavid And Auston Matthews Combined
Auston Matthews is currently the greatest goal scorer in the NHL. He's won the Rocket Richard Trophy in 3 of the last 4 seasons as the NHL's top goal scorer. The only season he didn't win the award in that stretch was 2023 when Connor McDavid took home the trophy for the first time in his career. McDavid is the most prolific point scorer in the NHL right now and has won the Art Ross Trophy as the league's top point scorer 5 times already in his 9-year NHL career.
We're now over a week into the 2024-25 NHL season. Auston Matthews hasn't registered a single point in 3 games yet. McDavid had a pretty big night last night with 2 assists against the Flyers, but he now has just 4 assists and 0 goals through 4 games.
Two of the biggest offensive weapons that the game has to offer, and neither of them have shit on Minnesota Wild goaltender Filip Gustavsson.
Holy fuckin' sauce. That was a spicy arrabbiata.
Ron Hextall was the first goalie in NHL history to score a goal in which he actually shot the puck himself (Billy Smith was technically scored the first goalie goal but it was credited to him after an own goal). Hextall scored an empty netter against the Bruins in the 1987-88 season, and then did it again in the 1989 playoffs. Then we went 7 years without another goalie goal in the NHL. I'd imagine equipment technology has a lot to do with it now, but this Filip Gustavsson goal makes it 3 goalie goals in the last 3 seasons in the NHL. Equipment technology or not, the goalies are starting to get cocky and they're letting it fly out there.
And for good reason. Goalie goals always get the boys buzzing. Look at how fired up the bench got for Gustavsson after that snipe--and especially Fleury.
That's a proud dad if I've ever seen one. Especially considering he put in the request for Gustavsson to fire one on net in the first place.
Goalies, man. They're all the greatest little freaks on the planet.