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Montreal chose to have crap backups. You also have to consider organizations like Carolina, Columbus, Nashville and a few others had 3-5 NHL-caliber goalies on their rosters in recent years. This past summer starting goalies had to settle for 2-3 mil show me deals because nobody was looking.
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Take a gander: Literally dozens of quality goalies hitting UFA this summer. I'd count about 10 mid-low range starters in the pile. Certainly over a dozen guys I would consider backups on par or better than Allen.
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Next year isn't bad either..
Vegas took what 1 UFA in the last expansion draft, so we'll see if that changes but Allen is a very solid backup when not asked to play so many games in so little time.