{"id":224044,"date":"2025-10-14T13:18:09","date_gmt":"2025-10-14T13:18:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/224044\/"},"modified":"2025-10-14T13:18:09","modified_gmt":"2025-10-14T13:18:09","slug":"jesper-wallstedt-stands-tall-in-shootout-as-wild-beat-kings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/224044\/","title":{"rendered":"Jesper Wallstedt stands tall in shootout as Wild beat Kings"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"rt-Text\">Not only was Wallstedt airtight in overtime, stopping three shots by the Kings during a 4-on-3 power play, but he was unbeatable in the shootout: His fourth save, against Andrei Kuzmenko, finalized the win after Marco Rossi scored for the Wild, and Wallstedt celebrated with a stick pump.<\/p>\n<p class=\"rt-Text\">\u201cI used to do it in Iowa last year the times we won in the shootout,\u201d he said. \u201cJust ended up happening out of excitement.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"rt-Text\">The nod to his past was appropriate. <\/p>\n<p class=\"rt-Text\">Despite the Wild blowing a three-goal lead, the struggles Wallstedt, 22, went through last season in the minors helped keep him focused after the Kings forced overtime.<\/p>\n<p class=\"rt-Text\">A first-round pick out of Sweden in 2021, Wallstedt played up to his scouting report as a technically sound goaltender during his first two seasons in the American Hockey League, winning a combined 40 games. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Not only was Wallstedt airtight in overtime, stopping three shots by the Kings during a 4-on-3 power play,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":224045,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[66],"tags":[385,99],"class_list":["post-224044","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nhl","tag-nhl","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/224044","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=224044"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/224044\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/224045"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=224044"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=224044"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=224044"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}