More proven yes, but much better remains to be seen - especially at this point in their careers
Markstrom 2.73 GAA, .909 save percentage (career)
Thompson 2.67 GAA, .912 save percentage (career)
I'm highly skeptical Thompson isn't a product of Vegas.
Thompson is already 27, despite seeming only 24-25. He was in the ECHL for quite a while. Many forget he was property of us in the ECHL, but nobody even seemed to be aware of him at the time he played for us in the ECHL. Cam Johnson had a larger fanbase lol.
But I'm highly skeptical he's not just a product of Vegas. Vegas made Adin Hill (who was an okay goalie before there, but nothing great) a cup champion and he's performed considerably better than than he did on the Coyotes and Sharks.
Thompson is the kind of goalie I could see coming here and being bad, and then people asking why we yet again acquired this nobody goalie, who has no prior starting goalie experience in the league and was just in the ECHL not too many years ago, and why did we get another bandaid goalie when we could have just gotten Markstrom, albeit for more money on the cap?
And then the major red flag with Logan Thompson is he's an injury case. That's a major reason why he hasn't had the opportunity for a larger workload.