![]() ![]() Addison has holes in his game, too, mostly his 5-on-5 defense. The thing about young players is that they’re only inconsistent until they turn a corner.įor that reason, trading Calen Addison could create a similar situation for Minnesota as the Gustavsson trade became in Ottawa. ![]() There were holes in his game, and Ottawa had two other goalies on one-way contracts stuck on the NHL roster. Gustavsson had been very exciting in the SHL (Sweden’s top professional hockey league), but he had yet to put everything together in the NHL. ![]() So where did they go wrong? Talbot was supposed to be an established starter, and Gustavsson was a relative unknown performing at an effective, if unremarkable, level. Ottawa probably would take that one back if they could. ![]() They struck a trade, and Gustavsson ended up in the Vezina conversation. Across the border, the Ottawa Senators were seeking to take a step forward with too many goalies on their roster. The Wild originally signed him as a starter, but they phased him into a backup role with the Marc-Andre Fleury acquisition. The quick-start log of the situation was goaltender Cam Talbot. But we learned to wear the name with pride.The Minnesota Wild’s 2022 offseason was unexpectedly fiery for a team taking on over $12 million in dead cap space. Weyward, they called us, when we would not submit, would not bend to their will. It was men who marked us so, in the time when language was but a shoot curling from the earth. We did not need stonemasons to carve our names into rock as proof we had existed.Īll we needed was to be returned to the wild. Instead, the Weyward bones rested in the woods, in the fells, where our flesh fed plants and flowers, where trees wrapped their roots around our skeletons. Our ancestors-the women who walked these paths before us, before there were words for who they were-did not lie in the barren soil of the churchyard, encased in rotting wood. Why the crows-the ones who carry the sign-watch over us and do our bidding, why their touch brings our abilities into sharpest relief. That is why roots and leaves yield so easily under our fingers, to form tonics that bring comfort and healing. The animals, the birds, the plants-they let us in, recognizing us as one of their own. We can feel it, she said, the same way we feel rage, sorrow, or joy. There was something about us-the Weyward women-that bonded us more tightly with the natural world. ![]()
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