Speculation: Maple Leafs To Sign Karri Ramo?

[Maurice of Orange]

Karri Ramo started his career in the NHL with Tampa and struggled in parts of 3 seasons with the Tampa Bay Lightning organization, then signed over in the KHL with Avangard Omsk and played very well for 4 seasons over in Holy Mother Russia, and finally retuned to the NHL to play 3 decent seasons up in Alberta with the Calgary Flames.

Question is will Karri be willing to take a cut in pay to sign with Toronto as their backup to Frederik.

Karri Ramo's cap hit in his last season with Calgary was 3.8mil, so won't be making anything close to that this season if he signs with Toronto.

The leafs are about 900k under the cap, and I could see Ramo asking for anywhere from 1.5mil to 2.25mil for at least 2 seasons.

If Toronto were willing to put either Horton, Robidas or even Lupul on LTIR that move would give Toronto move then enough salary to sign Karri.

Karri Ramo (30) does bring experience with him as he can be considered a veteran netminder with the number of years he's played in Finland, Russia and in the NHL in North America, and would also be somewhat of a mentor to the 27 year old Danish goaltender Frederik Andersen.

 

[varano]

Karri Ramo started his career in the NHL with Tampa and struggled in parts of 3 seasons with the Tampa Bay Lightning organization, then signed over in the KHL with Avangard Omsk and played very well for 4 seasons over in Holy Mother Russia, and finally retuned to the NHL to play 3 decent seasons up in Alberta with the Calgary Flames.

Question is will Karri be willing to take a cut in pay to sign with Toronto as their backup to Frederik.

Karri Ramo's cap hit in his last season with Calgary was 3.8mil, so won't be making anything close to that this season if he signs with Toronto.

The leafs are about 900k under the cap, and I could see Ramo asking for anywhere from 1.5mil to 2.25mil for at least 2 seasons.

If Toronto were willing to put either Horton, Robidas or even Lupul on LTIR that move would give Toronto move then enough salary to sign Karri.

Karri Ramo (30) does bring experience with him as he can be considered a veteran netminder with the number of years he's played in Finland, Russia and in the NHL in North America, and would also be somewhat of a mentor to the 27 year old Danish goaltender Frederik Andersen.

Ramo is coming off a huge injury which is why he was never signed by anyone. Frankly i'm surprised his name has come up again.

I'm not sure why flames fans are pumping his tires. At the start of last season he was horrible and was demoted to the AHL. Then he came up again cause hiller was awful. I've seen this story a million times and so has everyone else. Mediocre goalie plays well on horrible team because he has nothing to lose.

I think He can be a serviceable goalie but I think the way flames fans are reacting is overselling him.

 

[Mike Jones]

Ramo is coming off a huge injury which is why he was never signed by anyone. Frankly i'm surprised his name has come up again.

I'm not sure why flames fans are pumping his tires. At the start of last season he was horrible and was demoted to the AHL. Then he came up again cause hiller was awful. I've seen this story a million times and so has everyone else. Mediocre goalie plays well on horrible team because he has nothing to lose.

I think He can be a serviceable goalie but I think the way flames fans are reacting is overselling him.

I don't think it's overselling to say that Ramo came back from a difficult start, held the fort for the Flames and did some decent work in some challenging situations. For the next year or two the Leafs are going to need a backup or 1B with the experience and ability to "hold the fort" if and when things get tough. Ramo may be their guy.

 

[Gsus]

He would be the best goalie around there, so sign him.

 

[airbus220]

am i reading this right?

What has Andersen shown till now, half of his games were not good while he had a walk in the park workload to start the season.

 

[ThrillinPhil]

He would be the best goalie around there, so sign him.

I hope you arent serious. Andersen has been saving our butts the last few games and keeping us in games. He is getting leveled with 40+ shots every night.