Brodeur and Roy are available too, 7 cups between them.The guys were mentioning upgrades to what we have in Smith and Rittich. 5 cups between the 2 guys you said no to and both were integral parts. They know how to win. Crawford is at 909 just coming off an injury and Quick when he is healthy is probably one of the largest competitors there is in the NHL. That said Dubnyk would be my choice for a couple reasons. The price is great and he smacks of a guy wanting to prove all his nay-sayers wrong.
Sounds like a time where teams need to focus on developing their own goalies...Seems like more teams are unhappy with their goaltending this year than the teams that are happy/content.
Combine that with a lot of guys like Rinne and Lundqvist not getting any younger, Brad could have some fun trying to figure out what to do this off season.
Sounds like a time where teams need to focus on developing their own goalies...
I don't disagree, but **** do we suck at it.
Lindstrom and Mattson should be cut loose immediately following this season.
Smith, Lazar, and a 2020 4th for Jimmy Howard?
Jimmy Howard:
NHL TOTALS: GP 472 W 225 SO 24 GAA 2.50 SV% 0.915
2018-19: GP 11 W 4 GAA 2.93 SV% 0.917
34 years old, Pending UFA making $5, 291 666($4,267,473 actual remaining)
Just kick that goaltending can a little further down the road.
edit: Smith can submit an 8 team no trade list :\
IIRC around the time of the Vegas expansion draft there were rumours that Mrazek had attitude issues which soured teams from trading for him and it led to Detroit leaving him exposed.We should take a look at Mrazek. He’s still young at 26, and already has almost 200 games. That’s impressive. With a defense that has played pretty good lately, I can’t see how Mrazek wouldn’t get a good chance to prove he’s a starter again.
He’s only signed for a year though, no? I think it’s worth trying. We have a locker room that gets along for the most part.IIRC around the time of the Vegas expansion draft there were rumours that Mrazek had attitude issues which soured teams from trading for him and it led to Detroit leaving him exposed.
EDIT: Here's the article Detroit Red Wings exposed Petr Mrazek due to performance, attitude
Lindstrom and Mattson should be cut loose immediately following this season.
Looking at the stats of our prospects it does seem pretty bleak. I mean most are like 4th rounders and up so I can't hate, but it sucks only seeing like two guys having good years our of all our forwards (Pospisil and Pettersen). Even Pospisil is doing it in an over-ager year in a tier 2 league (USHL opposed to NCAA), but at least he is dominating the league. Pettersen could be a stud though, if he can keep this kind of production up the kid is essentially a blue chip prospect after the year. Really hope this kid pans out as he grew up a Flames fan.
I have faith in pretty much no one else at this point to ever push for a roster spot other than Pettersen, Mangiapane and maybe Foo. Forgot Lil' Z, he looks promising as well.
Yeah with a total lack of picks in recent years, the Flames have really had to take some swings. So far a few of them look somewhat promising, but the 2 I mentioned don’t look to have any future, even in the AHL.
It's not even those two you mentioned, 2/4 of our goalies are nothing prospects and even Gillies looks super shaky and Parsons is getting lit up in his short pro career (though I know our defence is terrible in Stockton).
Not having 2nd round picks for a lot of drafts really kills. With the way Hammer has been playing this year (fantastic) and the emergence of Vali and Ras out defence is pretty much set with another 22 year old Hanifin, and the 1st rounder doesn't hurt as much because Hammer is still young-ish and has been solid.
Hopefully the Flames can draft some stud offensive kids in the 1st round in the next couple of drafts though.
I'd gladly do that trade if Smith was willing to waive his NTC (or if he doesn't have Detroit on there). Howard is average which is miles ahead of what Smith has been for the last eight or so months.
Lazar level prospect + mid round pick + cap dump is about as it's going to get for Detroit if they trade Howard.
But I also wouldn't be surprised if Holland just re-signs Howard either. He does things like that a lot.
Parsons is getting lit up in his short pro career (though I know our defence is terrible in Stockton).
If you actually watched all of Parsons' games played down there you would realize that there are lies, damned lies, and statistics.