RECKLESS
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Watched some Wedgewood clips and interviews on youtube. He comes across as a positively relaxed levelheaded dude. Hope he can bring some fresh good vibes to the locker room full of grumpies.
Avs trade Annunen and 2025 6th for Scott Wedgewood (NSH)
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It's easy to understand. CMac more than likely told Bednar that Georgiev is their guy this season and Bednar knows that he's going to win or lose with Georgiev. He doesn't give 2 shits about Annunen nor whoever the backup is.
All the eggs are in Georgiev's basket so he better take care of him.
I have too much going on in life to follow the Avs nightly like I used to, but after reading all these comments as sort of an outsider-looking-in, it seems blatantly obvious to me that this was a personality fit thing.
Annunen was possibly kicking up just as much of a storm as the rest of us do about Georgie’s play, and it eventually got him booted out of town.
Annunen was possibly kicking up just as much of a storm as the rest of us do about Georgie’s play, and it eventually got him booted out of town.
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That's possible.
In the end it doesn't matter. Annunen wasn't good enough to even be the backup regardless of any possible reasons. The opportunity was there for him to steal the starter job and he didn't play well enough to do it.
Then, he either just flat-out sucked or pouted and neither is good so I am glad they moved him out for an established backup.
I very much doubt that. Certainly not the way he had been playing of late.
There’s really no need to play overanalyze this, he has been by far the worse goalie following those two really stellar starts a few weeks ago when Georgiev was in the dumper. And after that game in Tampa, they were done with him.
GirardSpinorama
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Still hate the move but seems like it was telegraphed. Annunen got a minimum deal that made him easy to move, CMAC took a small gamble based on last years numbers. Its a compromise. If wedgewood came at 800k, we might have just went for him in the offseason. Bednar/our goaltending coach probably never bought into annunen, who is not an aggressive mobile goalie and the coaching staff wont adjust its system for a backup.
All this narrative around georgiev is probably overanalyzing it.
All this narrative around georgiev is probably overanalyzing it.
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I almost hate to say this (given this group’s collective current mental state - myself included), but the Avs may have just traded their backup for their new starting goaltender.
BobRossColton
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So we could've used annunen+Ritchie to get askarov?
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There's gonna be a lot of crow eating going on in here soon
expatriatedtexan
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I just wanna state for the record, I've been here for the rally since I heard Georgiev was getting the start in net.
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Wheather you like the trade or not, I think we can all agree that getting something fresh will help regardless. Playing in front of someone new who you haven’t yet lost faith in will give them some jump. That’s the exact reason I didn’t hate the trade from the beginning.
RECKLESS
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Loved the desparation moves when the going got hot. You just know that both Justus and Georgi4 would have frozen still out of position and the puck end up you-know-where.
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SirLoinOfCloth
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Wins when trailing by 3+ goals should count for an extra point. We'd probably lead the league.
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Yes, but Wedgewood was FAR from perfect. Sabres should've scored twice in that third due to Scott swimming around the crease and awful positioning. If Annunen fails, it is because he's too slow, if Wedgewood fails, it is because he's all over the place, but has none of Rinne's talent.
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CaleMakaw
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Good thing going forward the avs don't need perfect. They just need good enough.
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I think he can be a legit backup, as seen in Dallas, but at no point should he be considered to be the starter.
He's not the one that needs to replace Georgiev. He's the Annunen replacement.
