My assessment of the tending situation:
Oilers goalies: They are who they are. NHL average at best, maybe Fasth goes on a hot streak now and again. They do have Brossoit, who as a "horizon" guy is mediocre.
Flames goalies: I have no faith in Ramo being anything other than what he is. Same is true of Berra. However, in Ortio they have a guy who could make the jump to "good NHL goalie" in the next couple of years, and in Gillies, they have a "horizon" guy who is better than Brossoit in terms of potential.
Canucks goalies: Lack is good now, has a floor lower than Fasth and Scrivens, but probably not lower than the Flames' tandem. However, he has more upside than all of them. Markstrom could be a total bust or he could be Kari Lehtonen, great upside, high risk. Ericsson has NHL upside as well, but is basically a poor man's lack - similar upside, less likely to reach it.
So, Canucks have best upside, Oilers have lowest risk, Flames are somewhere in the middle.
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Originally Posted by CaptainCrunch
I doubt that any team is going to want to take both of them on, and I doubt that the Sedin's are going to waive to go to separate teams. The Canucks are going to be stuck watching their painful decline for a long time.
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Don't agree with this at all. There are a number of teams that would take on both of them.