Safe to say, he's not Belfour.
Not only is that not true - which has been shown to you countless times - but it's also completely irrelevant to the fact that a top team in the league is not going to sell off their Vezina-contending #1 goalie right before the playoffs.
Ultimately with the cap bind, unless they move one of the top guys, that's probably what it will come down to.
Because half of a season of poor injury luck doesn’t make or break a guys value? Seems pretty straightforward to me.Ironic you say that.
If he’s a good goalie on a good deal, why would they move him for nothing but cap space? And how is it you describe Mrazek as stable when he’s spent so much time on IR, unavailable to play for his teams? This has become a pattern at this point over several years.
Your blind optimism is admirable, though.
I’m claiming him to be exactly what he always has been throughout his entire career. A higher end platoon goalie, nothing more.
I figured this would be common sense and didn’t need to be explained around here, guess not.
They weren’t rolling into the season with jack still an unknown and someone like Halak or Holtby. That was never going to happen. Mrazek also has been very consistent in his career. Aside from a down season in Philly he’s pretty much been a 55% of the game starter with 2.5ga 910sv numbers. That’s worth 3.8 all day every day. He got a discount of 3.8 on short term because of his recent injury history.
Pretty tough or maybe impossible to get a top 5 goalie.. or any goalie for that matter, I suppose we were lucky to get Maz but that is probably only because we made Andersen available. There just aren't that many good goalies.
I’ve strongly disliked Mrazek’s game so far, but he’s only played 4 games for us - tiny sample size. And he has many seasons of playing at a strong backup or even a decent 1A/1B tandem goalie elsewhere. We definitely need to give him more chances.
What? He was fine in the desert. Not gonna win too many putting up a 1 spot in the league very often
Except its not true, and nowhere in the record books does it say we "disappeared". That's just your incorrect perception of what happened in the past, that has nothing to do with this thread topic or discussion. If you want to believe that a team that ranks top-5 in the league is not a top team, or that a top team should or would sell off their Vezina-contending #1 goalie before the playoffs start, that's your choice I guess, but it's pretty easy to see how wrong that is.
The first goal was completely on the D. The puck was bouncing all over. It’s one of the flukier goals I’ve seen lately tbh. The second is the type of goal you expect a rusty goalie who hasn’t played much to let in, he missed badly on a timing play and it wasn’t very good, no. Also the D was super weak on the coverage. Dzingel shouldn’t of gotten the inside track.
