At the same time, how many times did we complain about Ward giving up the "back breaking goal"? I will defend the fact that Ward at one point was a borderline top 10 goalie, but he's not that guy anymore. The problem, however, is that any replacement will probably either A) be expensive or B) have plenty of question marks of his own.
Which is why I said, sometimes he's better than adequate and others, not so much.
Right now Cam Ward is like Scott McGregor was for the O's (fans of the Birds will relate). He won a lot of games 3-1 or 6-4. If he got through the 1st two innings without giving up the offensive barrage, then he was likely to go 7 1/3 scattering 7 hits and leave with 2 outs with a man on 1st and 3rd. Often good enough to get the win, but usually with a bit of adventure. He would be coasting along, only to give up the 2 run homer....to me that's what Cam is. He's often okay, seemingly keeping you in the game, occasionally letting in the softie that either makes things interesting or erases a come back. He also makes that miracle save that preserves the 3-2 win.
To me, both of those guys are the definition of adequate....you'd replace them with somebody better if you could, but often the replacements leave something to be desired. That leaves you with a "devil you know" type of scenario.
So until there's a clearly superior replacement, I'm fine with riding a lower priced Cam until this team is truly a contender again.
