Because of a suspension.
A member of this organization once said “only the McDavid types don’t need AHL time”
Do you believe this is true?
Do you believe it was correct to have QB in the AHL at 18? If you had it to do over again would you do things differently?
Do you believe it was correct to have Turcotte in the AHL at 19? If you had it to do over again would you do things differently?
Do you believe it was correct to have Bjornfot in the AHL at 18, and again at 22? If you had it to do over again would you do things differently?
Why am I supposed to think Clarke down there will be any different?
GBH, there is also the possibility that Nemec isn’t that good, I’m not sure that was a great draft for elite top end guys outside of Cooley. NJ has been very aggressive with putting guys into the NHL early, but aren’t here, might be a not great sign for him. Or maybe he got passes over by Hughes.
The point of the post is that Clarke should have been in the NHL this year, he’s good enough, his contract is an ELC and the Kings results from AHL usage has been poor (I think even you would concede that). Roy or Spence should have been traded to make room, probably Roy, in hopes of filling the massive hole in goal.
This is for everyone and not just
@Herby . I honestly don't know how we fix the goaltending. I am not mad at the PLD signing as he is exactly what the Dr ordered. I am however not happy with the Moore signing. I am under the belief a Turcotte or Laferriere could have held down that spot at 1/4 the price.
In a very perfect world Blake finds a high class goalie to trade for on a team that wants Roy as the trade chip back. Frees up a spot for Spence and Clarke but in my mind it severely hurts our right side on the PK. I guess the same could be said about trading Moore however I don't think he holds a lot of value at this time.
Lets try and get Clarke into the Lineup: Two ways to do that, trade Spence or Roy:
Can you think of a 1 for 1 trade involving Roy and his $3,150,000 contract for a goalie with that amount on his contract or less that would be available?
I guess we can hope they take Roy and Copley to give us about 3.75 dedicated to the goalie and the other $900,000 to spend on Clarke's callup.
At work right now so I cannot check but off the top of my head maybe Boston with Swayman but I think he has a short track record?
Lets try and trade Spence? We know what we have but do others? Plus he makes basically league minimum so we would need the same coming back.
He definitely wont fetch Wallstedt or Askarov. Would Calgary do Wolf? I don't think his value would be to far off the above 2 rookies. I am sure for those three the ask would be Clarke. Plus we get an unproven goalie back. We just did that dance with Peterson.
Would love to fish Saros out of Nashville but they would need to take both Moore, Copley, + another player off of us to make the cap work. Not an appealing package for Nashville.
Our current goaltending looks like dog shit. It shouldn't be this hard to replace one of them with someone better. Someone help Blake figure this out or we all better start praying Talbot finds the fountain of youth.
