Wild want both Fleury and Talbot to return in net

Key Facts

• • The Minnesota Wild stocked their net with a three-time Stanley Cup winner at the trade deadline, fetching Marc-Andre Fleury to form an accomplished goalie tandem with All-Star Cam Talbot down the stretch of the best regular season in franchise history.
• The Wild would prefer to keep the pair in place, general manager Bill Guerin said Tuesday, despite their lack of salary cap space and the recent reminder that such enviable depth typically doesn't mean as much during the playoffs.
• Obviously, you trade for a guy like that with his pedigree and his past, why wouldn't you start him Game 1?" Talbot went 13-0-3 in his last 16 starts prior to the postseason.
• With one year remaining on his deal, Talbot said he expects to return for 2022-23 and expressed no lingering ill will about being mostly left out of the playoffs.

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