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Originally Posted by moon
I would say the fact that the Flames had enough interest in Irving to give him a contract and let him play games while no team in the NHL would do the same thing for Taylor indicates that Irving has a little more value at the NHL level than Taylor. I would wonder why Taylor would be seen as being as good or better when he has struggled finding and keeping a full time starting gig, put up some terrible numbers in the past and has 0 offers from NHL teams going into this season. He has put up good numbers for half a season in Abbotsford this year but that seems like a short time frame to base a judgement on him being better than Irving.
He would have to play exceptionally well and even then unlikely he gets any interest from anyone as they could have signed him two weeks ago for nothing so unlikely they give up assets based on a few games now and every team in the league has a better goalie on their roster and likely in the AHL as well.
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Taylor has 3 seasons of play at or better than Irving so its not like he just had a few good games. I am not saying he is worth more than Irving but currently his play seems to be about as good or better and I do think he should get a chance to play some games. I don't think there is anything to lose (except the game =)) and the benefit of course is the possibility of turning a guy who was worth nothing into an asset.