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Originally Posted by Vulcan
Not true, TJ Brodie really lit up the camp when he arrived. His poise and stick handling were top notch and brought high praise from Sutter.
As for being optimistic, that's not what
you are when you say this about Ramo,
I'd say Ramo is showing more promise than a bottom 5 goalie.
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When Brodie first started he was completely lost in his own end and was dreadful. He did have some offensive skill chops that were evident, but Kanzig looked better in his end than Brodie did that first year. He was basically a forward playing defense. Eric Roy would be as close of a comparison of a guy that we have at the moment.
I'm not at all optimistic on Ramo. When it comes to NHL players, I try to be as realistic with expectations as possible. They are beyond the if maybe period that most of our young guys are in (they get leeway for their mistakes because they're young)
With Ramo, what I see is a goalie that is sloppy in several aspects of his game. He goes down way too early and stays there too long instead of resetting, he moves too much in his crease and his movements themselves are not as controlled as I would like. He also is very prone to giving up rebounds instead of controlling the puck or directing it into the corner. I'm thinking that he'll have the stats in the neighbourhood of 2.75-3 GAA and a .890-.905 range. Those stats are in the same range as Joey Mac's last year and I think they'll have very similar stats this year.
He has more natural talent than a guy like Joey Mac, and you'll get games where he'll stand on his head, but the sloppy parts of the game will cause some really stinker goals to be scored and there will be frustrating times with him because he does have talent. If he can learn to tighten up the parts of his game that are causing him problems, then he might become an average goalie in the NHL, but as it sits right now I think he'll trend towards the bottom of the starters heap.