I don't know what people expected, really. We knew we would be disappointed. The market is crap. The only goalie traded wasn't going in division (Isles pushed hard for gru too and didn't get him). When there were actually goalies available for trade, Francis f***ed up and went with darling. The opportunity is gone. We knew darling was going to have to come back. He's probably bought out if he poops himself again this year. That contract isn't an easy one to buy out for any team, especially one that's still paying semin. Halak, reimer, lehner, whoever, they're all crap just like mrazek. But his 1.5 is easy to swallow and send down if we want to call up nedeljkovic or if a trade option comes up. Like someone said, the market next year looks much better, and that'll be another year for our goalie prospects to progress, too. We just need Ned, mrazek, darling to be mediocre. We had .891 goaltending or whatever last year and still didn't finish bottom 10. Amazingly there are situations worse than ours. The islanders haven't got their goalie yet and the senators don't look too great either. I think mediocre, is acheiveable, though, especially when we're out from bill peters' system and hopefully the players come in with more confidence.
I'm more irritated that it looks like they've fumbled on the skinner and Faulk trades. They were too open about wanting to trade them and now they're trying to backtrack. Faulk should've been gone before his NTC came in and we should've signed a replacement.
