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Originally Posted by kyuss275
Irving will get his chance with the Heat this season. Brust is not even the real backup right now. The only reason he is on the bench is because Irving has a max of 50 games he can suite up for.
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Big assumption there. Ward has talked a lot about having a lot of faith in Brust. Don't think they signed him merely to be the 3rd stringer all the time. Wouldn't surprise me at all if Brust plays as much as Taylor or Irving.
Will be interesting to see how the situation develops. Perhaps Abbotsford will trade a goalie at some point during the season. Some of the flexibility is presumably because Irving would likely be Kipper's backup if the NHL actually goes ahead this year and management still wants two solid goalies in Abby if that happens in order to keep good depth at the AHL level and throughout the organization.
What would happen in Kiprusoff was injured? Look at how the depth would change. What would happen if two goalies in the organization were injured? I still remember the year we lost 4-5 goalies to injury.