Wild 2025-26 Report Card: Brock Faber

The NHL offseason is in full swing, and while there are still signings and trades to come, they’ll be more spread out than all at one time. The Minnesota Wild likely still have some news to make, but for now, it’s still about their past season and how their players did. We continue to move through the defensemen for grades, and we’re down to the final two. 

The Wild easily have one of the best defensive pairs in the NHL in Quinn Hughes and Brock Faber. They are the final two defensemen left to receive their grades, and it’s time to look at Faber and how his season played out. We’ll look at how he did in the regular season and then take a look at his postseason and come up with an overall grade. 

Faber Bounced Back 

After having a rough 2024-25 season and a slower start to last season, Brock Faber found a way to dig deep and bounce back. After he registered just 29 points in 2024-25, he tallied 51 points in 2025-26, with 15 of those being goals and a career high. He also recorded a career high in assists with 36, and his points were a career high as well. 

He had a quiet start to the season, along with the rest of the team, as they struggled to get through the month of October. Through those issues, when asked about them, he admitted he thought he was part of the problem: “I don’t know, it’s kind of hard to put your finger on it right now; there’s been all different situations, every game’s different. It starts with keeping the puck out of our net. I’m a big part of that. I gotta be better,” Faber said to the media following the Wild’s loss to the Utah Mammoth back in October during their rough stretch. 

Faber did back off in his physicality, not only this past season with 33 hits, but the one prior as well with 36 hits; however, in his rookie season, he had an impressive 65 hits. He may not have been as physical, but he didn’t stop sacrificing his body as he blocked 148 shots; that’s just second to his rookie season when he had 150. After looking at these stats, tt was easy to see as well how much of an impact playing with Quinn Hughes can have. 

It’s no surprise he led the Wild in blocked shots, and that is a big factor in his grade for the regular season. With his bounce-back offensively and his efforts defensively, he earned an A. Although he had a slower start, the entire team did, and he took a lot of the blame upon himself. That’s why his grade wasn’t lower than an A, but it wasn’t an A+ because again there’s room to improve and he did make some mistakes. 

Faber Continues Improvement 

The Wild got out of the first round of the postseason for the first time in 11 years, and Faber was a big part of that. He played in all 11 games of the playoffs and contributed four goals and six assists for 10 points, which earned him the fourth spot among Wild players right behind Kirill Kaprizov, Quinn Hughes, and Matt Boldy. Shouldn’t be too surprising since he spent a lot of time with Hughes. 

While he had an impressive 21 blocked shots, he was outdone by his defensive teammate, Jared Spurgeon, who had 22 blocked shots. He also kept his hits to a minimum, but the blocked shots were crucial in the Wild getting past the first round. He’s shown drastic improvement in a short time, and hopefully that will continue as he’s still young at just 23 years old.