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Matt Murray won the Penguins two cups. I will give you Jarry but leave Murray out of it.How could anyone trust a GM that puts his faith in Matt Murray and Jarry as goaltenders?
This is such bullshit. Half of our board vomited upon signing. Just because you didn't doesn't mean "no one could have projected this!"The contract Dubas gave out to him was heinous but I don't think anyone could have projected he'd fall off as hard as he did. When he signed that deal, he was coming off of a season with a .909 save% and a -2.8 GSAx, he was a perfectly mediocre starting goalie. He has completely collapsed since then.
Jarry is another marvelous example of "do not pay mediocre goalies". He's another guy on that Campbell/Merzlikins/Petersen group that wasn't good enough to justify the massive money/term they got.
Sooooo many GMs have been screwed over by this recently. Which is why I never wanted my Oil to sign Campbell. Especially coming off TWO years of Mike Smith providing Well Above League average goaltending for a measly 2.3M per. But incessant noise from media to go "fix" goaltending made us not realize how good we had it with Smith even though he was like 37 at the time.Yes, it was stupid of Dubas to sign a goalie to a long-term contract, but they idea that he's the only GM in the NHL dumb enough to do this is laughable. 90% of the GMs in the league buy into the nonsense that you need to lock up a goalie or else you're screwed.
Which available goalies were better?I remember Dubas went on a nice over explaining rant on exactly why he’d likely be re-signed as he used his excel sheet to rank him against other available goalies and was deemed the best option. What a plug lol
Tristan Jarry is a dogshit goalie who has never once (in almost 300 career starts) come through in the clutch. Literally neverHaven't watched the Penguins closely. Looks like he and Nedejlkovic have almost identical numbers. What triggered this move now?
They were all bad at the time. A few getting better once moved to a new team doesn't help your argument, lol....and which one of them (two of which weren't "bad goalies" as much as injury-plagued ones) had a contract as long and as bad as Jarry has now??...
Haven't watched the Penguins closely. Looks like he and Nedejlkovic have almost identical numbers. What triggered this move now?
Let's go down the List:
To be fair, Georgiev is kinda the anti-thesis to your post. Sakic only signed him 3 years, giving the team the flexibility to get out from under his abysmal play this season. It's Blackwood that could be the example, albeit this year you'd never know that given his play.
Maybe none, but then give your, at the time, up and down goalie a two year not a five year contract.Which available goalies were better?
10 good games so far.I'm like 95% sure that Blackwood is going to be the next goalie to join that Jarry/Merzlikins/Grubauer/ect group. It's just a question of how long he can be serviceable for Colorado before that happens.
He was a pending UFA. It was a bad deal in hindsight and I didn't love it to begin with, but people act like it's inconceivable that anyone would sign the guy to that deal. In reality, he was 2 time all star and the big name free agent goalie that offseason. Korpisalo was the other big name UFA and he got 5 years x 4MM. Elvis Merzlikins had recently signed for 5 x5.4MM.Maybe none, but then give your, at the time, up and down goalie a two year not a five year contract.
The contract Dubas gave out to him was heinous but I don't think anyone could have projected he'd fall off as hard as he did. When he signed that deal, he was coming off of a season with a .909 save% and a -2.8 GSAx, he was a perfectly mediocre starting goalie. He has completely collapsed since then.
Jarry is another marvelous example of "do not pay mediocre goalies". He's another guy on that Campbell/Merzlikins/Petersen group that wasn't good enough to justify the massive money/term they got.
And he had a .914 save % over the last 4 seasons.The contract Dubas gave out to him was heinous but I don't think anyone could have projected he'd fall off as hard as he did. When he signed that deal, he was coming off of a season with a .909 save% and a -2.8 GSAx, he was a perfectly mediocre starting goalie. He has completely collapsed since then.