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Originally Posted by Erick Estrada
This management team has done almost everything right but the Ramo signing is a major blunder for this team. They should have just gone into the season with Hiller and Ortio. Ramo was mostly an afterthought for this team last season and he has a couple of decent playoff games and for whatever reason the coach and GM feel this guy is starter material over the guy that got them into the playoffs and won them a first round series? Just a bad decision all around. I don't mind Ramo as a backup but that role should have gone to Ortio this season as this team is still in a process of plugging in their drafted players and one season exceeding expectations shouldn't have changed that as they should have stuck to the process. Ramo is simply not starter material so now they are stuck in a situation where they will likely have to pay a goaltender a tall salary to play in the AHL.
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It's not the end of the world and it won't hurt them much, but I agree that it was a weird decision. We still haven't really heard a clear rationale. Going with Hiller/Ortio seemed like such an obvious move...the only thing I can think of is that they really don't trust Hiller. Which is also weird.