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 Kr55
Messages: 12884
Registered: May 2002
Location: Edmonton
6 Cups
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Would have been great to try to do this search for a trade for our ideal goalie in the summer after we were a cup finalist.
Now? No way a team is gifting us a young and consistently good goalie without us selling the farm to get him. If we miss the playoffs or have a crap playoff run with goaltending clearly being a major cause? It won't be much easier this coming summer. And things can snowball from there if we are still too scared to take a chance on a goalie to try to make our team not appear so pathetic in that position.
Trying to go from poop to perfection would be extremely difficult. Maybe need a stepping stone first. First make us not look like goaltending is going to tank us singlehandedly with some passable goalies. Stop the entire world from knowing we're desperate to pull out goaltending out of the gutter and at least be around average there. Then try to make another move for this ideal goalie.
too bad we gave 4M of cap space for 8 years to an AHL-tier winger (IMO incorrectly listed as C. Maybe he could play C in the AHL), or we would have a lot more cap space to play with this year to try to make that stepping stone move.
[Updated on: Fri, 28 November 2025 09:23]
"We need to get better immediately. That starts today"
- Lowe, 2013
"Next year I would forecast as another developmental year"
- MacT, 2015
5 x $5,000,000
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