RDOilerfan wrote on Tue, 01 May 2018 13:14

Skoobz wrote on Tue, 01 May 2018 12:50 Are we at the point of needing wellness checks on Chiarelli yet? 2.5M for an unproven nobody? There will likely be 8-10 capable backups available who would play for 1M, and yet again, the Oilers have to try be the smartest guy in the classroom. Such as? I am not saying this is a good or bad signing because I know nothing about the guy. He's got really good KHL numbers and has put them up for a number of seasons, great. Now let's see if that translates to the NHL. All I know is the Oilers goaltending was lousy this past season and was a big time reason they stunk. I firmly believe that Talbot will bounce back and be way better but they need to stop playing him 65+ games. Those days seem to be gone. They need a guy that is capable of playing at least 20 games, maybe 25. I have a hard time believing you will find a guy making 1 mill capable of playing that much unless you luck out and find some young guy. They tried it with Brossoit. It blew up in their face. Guys making 1 mill are usually guys like Montoya. Here is the list of UFA goalies. https://www.capfriendly.com/browse/free-agents/2019/caphit/a ll/goalies/ufa Of the list of top guys. I sure don't want Lehtenon, Halak, Ward Lack, Johnson, Pavelec, Hammond because they are lousy in the NHL. Bernier was decent but he was already making 2.75 mill and coming off an OK season so he probably get a raise. Khudobin would interest me but why would Boston let him go and he gets a significant raise. The guys I would really like is Hutton but the Blues would be nuts to let him go and he might become their starter as his numbers were awesome. T So I don't mind paying a guy some money because if you want a good guy, you have to pay him. But what concerns me is rolling the dice on a guy with not a lot of NHL experience. I hope it works out.

LB played 11 games where he got W or L. .883 SP/3.24 GAA
AM played 6. .906/2.94

for comparison
CT 65/.908/3.02

A quick look at capfriendly tells me the guys you list as being terrible in the NHL all had similar or better stats than our backups, some better than our starter.

this list made less than 1.3 mill last year;
Carter Hutton
Anton Khudobin
Antti Niemi
Ondrej Pavelec

I will be honest. I have dont have enough eye test knowledge to say which of those guys is best but I would be happier with any of them at 1-1.5 than this signing.

I am not saying any of the UFA goalies are all star's. In fact I wouldnt want to pay any of them 2.5mill to be a backup.

Which leads us back to, how can you, or more importantly PC, justify that much for a completely unproven 30 (as of July) year old?

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