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Originally Posted by Erick Estrada
I will say I've never been on the Ortio hype train. I've always believed at best he would be a placeholder for Gillies. He's had one AHL season where he looked to be better than average but outside of that his AHL numbers are pretty middling. Yeah he carries a Finnish passport I get that but at the end of the day one AHL season of a better than 0.920 SV% isn't nearly enough to convince me that he's a top prospect.
That said I was hoping that he would get a full opportunity to be the backup this season and then the team signed Ramo and things kind of snowballed to today and we are left with nothing but question marks all around in regards to the position. It's the self inflicted wounds that are the hardest to take and this was self inflicted by the Flames management team.
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Agreed on all that. I too was never big on Ortio and in fact I think stated that I was worried I might be under-rating him. I still may be doing that.
I would dearly like to know the true story behind how the summer played out. From piecing together what some of the local media has said it sounds like there were a couple of things at play
- Flames were in on Talbot and Jones. Landed neither
- Flames had a deal in place for Hiller that fell through. Possible destination was San Jose which evaporated when they got Jones
So here's what I think happened
- Flames thought they could get Jones
- Intent was to run a Jones/Ortio tandem this season
- They had a deal to ship Hiller to San Jose, with no intent to sign Ramo
Then Jones got signed by San Jose which took away both their first choice to be their #1 this season AND the landing spot for Hiller.
At that point there was some panic and they signed Ramo because Hartley didn't have confidence to go into the season with Hiller/Ortio
Something like that. It went sideways for sure.