Yeah. The only caveat here is that a lack of confidence makes a player slower, and not just at skating. It robs them of decisiveness so nothing is done with the needed speed. See also: Lafrenierre last preseason. (No I'm not comparing the two players, I'm comparing their circumstances/lack of confidence.)
This is likely. and speaking of spilling, some posters will be about ready to open an artery when he gets more than most of us would like to see him get...
100% this. It’s been pretty clear for a few years now that you don’t need a HOF-level goalie to win the cup. It definitely helps but not if it cripples your cap situation.
Florida had over 14 mil committed to goaltending and still managed to have a good enough team around them to win the cup.
It's two completely different situations. We're already locked into a core group of players that needs to get better.
Cool, we just need to find ourselves a few minor cap-friendly roster finds like Carter Verhaege, Sam Reinhart, and Sam Bennett
? Yea I don't think so. You need an elite goalie to do anything in playoffs. That's the point. They keep you in games. Either way paying these guys an outrageous percentage of the cap will cripple us.
They aren't going to magically get better by paying less for a goalie. Panarin, Zib and Trouba have a combined cap hit of about 28 mil, and none of them were worth it in the playoffs.
Yes, making smart moves would be a good way to build the team. But when you give one player 11.6 mil before the team is ready to compete, that limits your other options.Cool, we just need to find ourselves a few minor cap-friendly roster finds like Carter Verhaege, Sam Reinhart, and Sam Bennett
If you give Igor 8 years, 88 mill - 11 per.. with 16 deferred to get the cap hit down to 9 per .. like the hurricanes did on Jarvis and Slavin (smaller scale) - he’s not going to say no.
It's not that simple. If you have an elite d-core with forwards committed to backchecking and really making the opposition pay for every inch, that consistently limits quality chances, a mediocre goalie can be sufficient. When your defense is prone to give aways, can't get the puck out of the zone, and is gifting the opposition multiple high danger scoring chances a game, then you need elite goaltending to keep you in the game. And of course this is a spectrum. We definitely are not the former. Last season we were middle of the pack in terms of allowing high danger shots at 5v5. We're pretty mid / above average. Mid / Above average + Igor / Quick though was good enough to win the regular season. Each part of the team equation played a part.
Yes, pretty sure Igor is not going to pull a Jalen Brunson for us.
I don't deny that at all. Regardless of cause, he is just slow. I am just not sure he is going to ever get it here. So different than the player at the World Championships before we drafted him. I am not sure what else they can do for him at this point.
He is one of the exceptions. He's been up and down in his career. Played well the last couple of years and the team played great in front of him.
For Jarvis to get more, this was what the Hurricanes had to do. For Igor, well, he's a UFA and he doesn't have to do anything like that. So 16m differed is quite a lot to ask for. Are you deferring this several years?
I get it. We shall see. I was willing to chalk last year off to a bad start with Zibs/Kreids (who don't seem to mesh with anyone and don't score at a very high rate at EV anyway) and a bad knee injury. This year he needs to put up AT LEAST the numbers he put up the season before, basically scoring at a rate of 0.5 PPG all even strength, for me to hold onto hope that he is anything more than a defensive specialist going forward.
