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Old 11-15-2013, 10:33 AM   #24
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Originally Posted by codynw View Post
Yea, it's just weird that they had an elite goaltender as a third stringer and they didn't even know it. He wasn't even a project, he was elite right away.

I guess it just goes to show how difficult it is to judge goaltending talent.
I think David Marcoux deserves a lot of credit. While Kipper was great right away for us, he would still have the odd terrible game... but he would come back the next game with a shutout or 1 goal performance. For whatever reason, Marcoux seemed to know how to reach him. I think in San Jose, they knew he had skill, but they were seeing too many of the terrible games and they couldn't harness him.
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