I wonder how he's looked in past seasons, 27 games isn't much of a sample, and goalies are prone to hot and cold streaks. Talbot was looking like a vezina candidate 27 games into the year, his next 27 games he looked very average.
Sure, there could be some risk, or even just “perceived risk”. You can’t point to a year where Stolarz had 45 - 50 starts. He’s only had 108 starts in 8 seasons.
10 great seasons 2 vezinas and I dont think any of those goals were his fault either.
Id be ok with them signing Brossoit and sending down either Korpisalo or Forsberg. Chances are one of them gets hurt anyways. Running with 3 goalies worked in Detroit and Toronto last year.
No.
Cannot be worst than Korpi
It really doesn't matter if they are worse. It needs to be better, substantially so. No team will succeed with the performance the goalies gave last year, so if it goes lower it basically doesn't matter.
I guess maybe if they have bad contracts they can get rid of or if we pay enough. Maybe if we take on Ryan Johanson and give them a few late picks, but even then, they still don't have the capspace to take on Korpisalo.
The same plan as anyone else I suppose: Ullmark, Markstrom and god knows who else. I wasn’t making a criticism of going with someone like Stolarz or Brossoit btw. There isn’t much out there. That’s one of the reasons I was saying it would not be a “surprise” which was the point of my post.
I think similar words could be used to describe the way the team played without the puck last season. Hopefully Green will make them play a solid 200 foot game when we do not have puck possession and hold them accountable for doing so.
Yeah I hope it works out for our current goalies. They haven't inspired much confidence in recent seasons that is for certain. Its tough having mediocre at best to poor inconsistent goaltending options for multiple years. I'd even argue Soogard falls into this category as he has been inconsistent as far as the AHL goes from what I understand, He certainly has had a couple tough NHL games that he started in as well.....
Both were a problem for a guy who never played more than 30(?) games and recently had double hip surgery.
To be fair, he played 39 the year before we signed him and the hip surgery was in 21-22 before he had that career year. The thought was his surgery fixed an issue that had been causing him issues, and he'd shown he'd recovered from it.
The main point is….no one was going to give him that contract. Same with Macewen at 3 years
The question isn't whether someone else would give him that contract, it's what will it take for him to choose our offer over someone else's. We were desperate for a starter with Talbot deciding he'd rather not re-sign.
We were desperate for a starter because Dorion wouldn't offer Talbot more than a one year deal. Talbot and his family had bought a house in Ottawa. He was *absolutely* willing to stay.
I get that Cam had a bad year, and was turning 36 that July, but to let him walk because he wanted at least two years just to go out and commit to Korpi for five years was a *very* risky gamble.
