Welcome to Wild Statements! In this series, writers and staff at Hockey Wilderness will share their opinion on one timely statement, using the typical agree/disagree scaling system. Of course, feel free to share your thoughts in the comments.
Statement:
I believe Kaapo Kahkonen can be the Minnesota Wild’s starting goaltender.
Kyle — Slightly disagree. When I think of a starter, I think of a goaltender getting the lion’s share of the starts, like Jusse Saros, Jacob Markstrom or Andrei Vasilevskiy. Sure, you’ve got “1A” type guys in time shares, and maybe Kahkonen can be that, but a go-to, start every game except the second of travel back-to-backs?