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.

 

[Mortimer Snerd]

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.

It would have been pretty hard to keep Bro. Not just the money, but he had to be looking for at least a shot at a starting job.