I don't see why he wouldn't. It's not like flower is going to be there forever and he is already getting starts. As long as he gets his money it shouldn't be an issue.

In fact I'd go so far as to say it can benefit him. Sign a 2 year contract at 3-3.5 ish and have a great chance to cash in sooner while having a very reasonable workload in a system that is clearly working for him

Do they have any cap space to sign him?

$12.3M in open cap space to sign 9-10 players to get to a 21-22 man roster. Including Gus.

However, Gustavsson is priority #1. Everyone else of note is either replaceable with an ELC or a at/near league minimum contract.

Gustavsson is signed first, other contracts after. Therefore there's no real reason why we couldn't keep him.

Idk what Ottawa was thinking trading Gus for an aging backup that was never a starter anyway.

I mean Talbot was good here in Minnesota. And Gustavsson was bad in his last season in Ottawa. Wild just have an awesome defense in front of the goalie which helps a lot. Plus I do think the goalie spot is a lot of confidence, which you can have if your team has a very good defense. Plus you should have seen all the Wild fans commenting when we traded Talbot away, you'd think we just gave up Vasilevskiy for a bag of pucks.