A good goalie can carry a bad team. The problem is, he just can't carry them for very long or very far. See also: The 2013-14 Toronto Maple Leafs.
My expectations are that Scrivens, riding a wave of confidence from his time in LA, will come in and do well. Edmonton will have their saviour, he'll get that big money extension. But like happened in Toronto, reality is going to set in. Scrivens will slowly stop bailing his inept defence out as often, and the goals against will creep back up until eventually, Scrivens himself becomes so demoralized that he becomes Dubnyk 2.0. Still an upgrade, but much in the way Windows 8.1 is an upgrade on 8.0: The improvements are so trivial that you half wonder why they bothered.
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