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Originally Posted by Cali Flames Fan
Sorry, can't agree with this. That means to start next year we would have a total of 50 games of NHL experience in net. You bring MacDonald back if only for the reason of having a guy who is NHL tested and experienced.
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Not trying to be brash, but so what?
He won't help us get into the playoffs. He's not going to become the long term starter. It doesn't make the Flames substantially better in the short or the long term. He really just takes away time that we can use to assess the other goalies.
And I don't buy the "hurting their confidence" angle. Given the ages of the goalies in question*, we don't have 3-4 years to commit to all of them to ease them into the league. Let's see who can handle the pressure and who can't.
* I'm only referring to Berra, Ramo, Taylor, Brust. I've no intention of having Gillies and Brossoit get tossed into this.