Wed 10/12/11 12:43 AM

Niklas Backstrom was beaten three times on 44 shots Tuesday as the Wild dropped a third period lead en route to a 4-3 shootout loss to the Senators. It's hard to blame the goaltender for a result like this when the team was outshot by Ottawa during all three periods of regulation. Backstrom is coming off a poor fantasy season, which likely makes him a little underrated this year. He's somewhere in the middle of the second tier of fantasy netminders.