Devan Dubnyk ill, so Wild recalls goalie Kaapo Kahkonen

Kahkonen has been lights out for the Baby Wild in Des Moines this season.

November 23, 2018 at 6:18PM
(The Minnesota Star Tribune)

Wild goalie Devan Dubnyk is under the weather and won't play, so the team recalled Iowa's Kaapo Kahkonen on a emergency basis this morning.

(The Minnesota Star Tribune)

Alex Stalock is likely to start today's matinee against Winnipeg at Xcel Energy Center.

Kahkonen is 4-1-1 and leads the American Hockey League with a 0.98 goals against average and .966 saves percentage. He has three shutouts as part of a franchise record shutout streak of 222 minutes, 22 seconds that ended earlier this week.

The 21-year-old was a gold medalist for the Finnish junior team at the 2016 world championships where he was 4-0. He was a fourth round (109th overall) pick in the 2014 draft.

He'll wear No. 31.

(Kahkonen photo courtesy Minnesota Wild)

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Sarah McLellan

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Sarah McLellan covers the Wild and NHL. Before joining the Minnesota Star Tribune in November 2017, she spent five years covering the Coyotes for The Arizona Republic.

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