Latest Sport News:Minnesota Wild Re-Signs Goalie Harding

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Takjzx.com is a site that is dedicated to sport. You can read sport news. The sport topic that we cover are soccer, football, basketball, tennis, college sports, hockey, golf, horse racing, motor sports, and much more.Backup goaltender, Josh Harding, has been given a contract extension by the Minnesota Wild in a move that will allow the young netminder and the team to avoid arbitration. Harding will continue as the backup for Niklas Backstrom but I’d like to see him get a chance to start more

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Backup goaltender, Josh Harding, has been given a contract extension by the Minnesota Wild in a move that will allow the young netminder and the team to avoid arbitration.

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Harding will continue as the backup for Niklas Backstrom but I’d like to see him get a chance to start more games (maybe even with another team?). He played in 19 games last season and had a 2.21 GAA and a .929 save % but despite his impressive numbers, he went 3-9-1. Wow… In his 58 career games his record moves to 19-27-4 with a GAA of 2.49 and a save percentage of .920.

I think that Harding and Jaroslav Halak (Montreal Canadiens) are two very promising young goaltenders and I’d like to see them moving up the ranks. I had hoped that a team like the Calgary Flames would have picked up Harding so that he could remain in the Western Conference while providing a much needed backup to a goalie like Miikka Kiprusoff. There’s still time for a trade, though.

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