I'm sure there are those that know all the details here, but my recollection is that Anderson wanted a 4yr 12m contract from the Avs during the summer prior and the Avs didn't want to give him term or that much. It got especially ugly in negotiations after Christmas where Anderson's camp broke it off and asked to be moved.
Ours is still cookin in the oven. It'll be nice to have him in his prime when this core is firmly out of theirs
Montreal isn't trading Monty anytime soon. Why would they? They have no one else to replace him and are trying to get in the mix for a playoff spot this year.
He had his struggles (hey, thankfully they had a pretty good backup at the time!) but IIRC he's the only Avs goalie to have beaten the Minnesota Wylde in the playoffs (something neither Patrick Roy nor Semyon Varlamov can say), and he was definitely the primary reason for that playoff series win.
Man... 3 or 4 sounds amazing right now.
The bolder part is what’s killing Makar, combine with be paired with jokes of D partners when Toews is gone. The start of the 2nd last night Makar was stuck out for the first two minutes…a couple icings yeah can make a change but, then we get a stop by Georgie allowing for a change….Makar stayed out!!! I don’t care if you’re bringing out the big boys after a whistle you can’t have a D be on the ice playing trapped in his own zone D for 2+ minutes and expect him to not make a few exhausted errors. That to me is on the coaching staff as a whole.
f*** that
I've been high on Stolarz for a while now. Wouldn't have cost that much to get him either. It at least would've given them a monumentally better option than Annunen.
As far as I remember it was. Didn’t he want to be paid like a top 3 goalie and this internal AVS cap wouldn’t allow that and or the dont ever pay a goalie their value strategy of Colorado dates that far back? I could be wrong but he was great here and helped that young team way over achieve, then got pissy and stopped trying then went to Ottawa and was top tier again for them for a decent period. I remember the day the AVS signed him as a free agent. I was so happy we finally had a real goalie
They literally just traded Kuemper because they wanted to keep him.
Not even Stolarz, Lankinen. Stolarz actually costs money, and he specifically wanted Toronto. Lankinen was all up for grabs until Vancouver got him when Demko situation blew up.
Let me preface that imo, any goalie move would happen later on in the season, not now.
Ullmark was traded for Korpisalo who had heavy negative value with that contract and a 1st. And his cap hit this season is only 5M
The offseason goalie market was so underwhelming in terms of value... I am too pissed that we were not in on Markström when that was all it cost.
