No choice but to go with Vokoun in game 3. Any chance at redemption for MAF dies with his whiff on the Marchand goal (on the first shot he faced) with 20 seconds left in the 1st, just after Pitt makes it 3-1. He makes that save, maybe the Pens come out in the 2nd with some momentum, and who knows what happens. But that goal put the nail in the coffin of that game, likely the series, and absoutely on his time in Pittsburgh.
I'd bet anything that the buyout paperwork is done and will be filed about 30 seconds after the window opens. He's got 2 more years at $5.75 left, and the cap hit is less than $2 million for 4 years.
The Pens have no other option. They can't afford to keep someone around who absolutely no one has any faith in. Maybe a fresh start helps him turn it around, but he's done in Pittsburgh.
Who they go after, I don't know. Luongo could be the guy, but the term will likely scare them off. Maybe Mike Smith off the UFA market, or offer sheet Rask or Bernier from the RFA list?
Last edited by Voodooman; 06-05-2013 at 12:04 PM.
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