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Old 08-20-2014, 12:33 PM   #70
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I honestly don't see Hiller as an improvement over what we had. I mean if he was that good, the ducks would have kept him. He has potential to be the goalie he once was but he could also follow his trajectory of decline.
Most other teams and your reasoning would be sound. But Anaheim let Hiller go because of an abundance of options. Much the same way LA jettisoned Scrivens - he wasn't traded because he sucked, he was traded because Martin Jones made him redundant.

Hiller won't steal a ton of games, and I don't even think he is a threat to steal the #1 job from Ramo. But he is a noticeable upgrade on MacDonald and Berra.
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