Wallstedt wasn’t surprised when Hynes turned to Gustavsson for Game 2.<\/p>\n
He didn’t feel much emotion at all, in fact.<\/p>\n
“Well, I’ve not started games before,” he said. “So, it’s nothing new.”<\/p>\n
He didn’t think at all about this being the first time he had the net taken away from him in the Stanley Cup Playoffs.<\/p>\n
“It’s also my first time in the playoffs,” Wallstedt said. “So, you got to experience everything.”<\/p>\n
Part of the experience, then?<\/p>\n
“Obviously, I want to play every game,” Wallstedt said. “I think everyone knows that. I think everyone knows that ‘Gus’ wants to play every game too. That’s how we all work, competitors, but sometimes you just have to look at it from another perspective. Obviously, I got some extra time to look over some of my stuff and go through some stuff I had to improve.”<\/p>\n
It helped, of course, that the Wild played a more detailed game in front of him, limiting the Avalanche’s rush game, controlling the puck in the offensive zone, and defending well in the defensive zone.<\/p>\n
It wasn’t the track meet that Wallstedt was victim to in Game 1.<\/p>\n
“Our details in our D-zone today were massive,” Wallstedt said. “We were boxing out. We were taking sticks. We had a lot of unreal blocks, and all of them are difference-makers. And that set us up as well to play more offense.”<\/p>\n