Eric Comrie: Do you feel comfortable with him as the #1 backup?

[Jets4Life]

Just asking, considering I really liked Brossoit, and was never uncomfortable if Helly needed some games off. With Comrie, I get nervous when he is in net. Nothing personal against him, but I thought we should have made more of an effort to keep Bro.

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[Jet]

Not really, but we had bro last year so it's not really fair

 

[AlaskaJet]

Comrie has really improved. IMHO giving him the easier games has helped hugely. I was surprised Arniel gave him the Tampa game though. Still, Comrie hasn’t shown badly given Tampa’s top line.
I just hopes he keeps his cool.

 

[abax44]

No reason not to, so far.

 

[Hank Chinaski]

More confident than I was at the start of the season.

He has done pretty well so far, minus a few bad angle goals. Still get the “Pavelec clench” every shot that comes his way.

 

[GeorgeJETson]

Recency bias indicates that I'm not comfortable for him to be our ECHL-affiliate backup.

Ask me again the next time he plays.

 

[Tasteless Beaver]

He's been pretty solid this year, and he was solid the whole year on his last stint before getting paid by Buffalo. Honestly, he's better than Pavelec, which is probably a good bar for a backup.

Brossoit got overpaid by Chicago ($3.3M x 2), a bottom-feeder with tons of cap space. Vegas and Chicago both think he's a 1B - we can't afford to give 1B money to a guy who backs up Hellebuyck when we have other priorities.

 

[GNP]

Comrie has played pretty good this year, and even in this Tampa game. I did feel more confident with Brossoit as a backup, but we'll see how Comrie does in the next 10 games or so. So far, not too bad.

 

[DudeWhereIsMakar]

I don't think he's bad, but he's totally not your starter if your starting goaltender gets hurt. Solid NHL back-up though.

I was gonna make a post here thinking at the deadline if we're doing hot we trade for the best back-up in the league or we can find that'll fit under the cap. More along the likes of Cam Talbot.

 

[Shlep]

He hasn't given me any reason not to be yet.

 

[Moloch]

Is there any chance DiVincentiis takes the backup spot at any point this year?

 

[Tasteless Beaver]

Is there any chance DiVincentiis takes the backup spot at any point this year?

They may gave him a game at the end of the year, but he's not ready for full-time duties. We have Kakhonen as an emergency NHL back-up for that very reason.

 

[castle]

As a backup... yeah I'm confident he'll perform like I expect a backup to perform. Shaky at times and some real good games thrown in too.

 

[surixon]

He's done his job pretty well so far. Hopefully he can give us another 15 to 20 starts.