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Hockeyville USA said:
Draft more & better goalies, find under the radar backups. Simple
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drafting better goalies? you're asking to draft a back up. Team has done that, but we don't have the time to wait on a backup goalie to develop. Any really good goalie prospect will not want to stick with the team knowing they are going to be backing up for the next 5+ years behind Vasy. So the team has to go out and sign career back ups. Its just the nature of having a hall of fame goalie who is still relatively young.
 
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Hockeyville USA said:
Draft more & better goalies, find under the radar backups. Simple
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I mean Halverson might be one of those under the radar guys. He's had a breakout season with Syracuse putting up great stats. Presumably the Crunch D aren't doing dumb shit like the Lightning are tonight though. He has had a couple of nice stops including on a breakaway that Cernak f***ed up clearing.
 
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DistantThunderRep said:
drafting better goalies? you're asking to draft a back up. Team has done that, but we don't have the time to wait on a backup goalie to develop. Any really good goalie prospect will not want to stick with the team knowing they are going to be backing up for the next 5+ years behind Vasy. So the team has to go out and sign career back ups. Its just the nature of having a hall of fame goalie who is still relatively young.
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They've had since 2012 to draft someone to become a competent backup. They haven't. Plenty of guys during that time in every draft who've become/are becoming solid NHL goalies
 
Hoek said:
I mean Halverson might be one of those under the radar guys. He's had a breakout season with Syracuse putting up great stats. Presumably the Crunch D aren't doing dumb shit like the Lightning are tonight though. He has had a couple of nice stops including on a breakaway that Cernak f***ed up clearing.
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Not likely at this point IMHO, putting up solid numbers in the A in your 28 year old season doesn't mean that much in regards to becoming an everyday NHL backup.
 
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