Situation had me looking up when Mike Vernon made the jump (no I'm not suggesting that Ortio is in that projection at this point) and the situation he was in.
It was different as the Flames didn't have two veteran goalies, they had one in Lemelin. Marc "Shaky" D'Amour beat out Vernon and Kosti for the backup role but had all kinds of dehydration issues so the Flames recalled Vernon to replace him, he looked great, and never went down.
They didn't have to move out a veteran to make space, they just flip flopped the farmhand that was backing Lemelin up.
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