Reimer has an extremely good 5v5 save percentage. It's like .940 or something like that over the season. That's Lundkvist/Price territory; and over a substantial number of games (30+). I'd be extremely okay with the Flames offering Reimer a 2-year contract on July 1st.
I think going into next season with Reimer on a 2-year deal, Ortio on a 1-year qualifying offer puts us in a really good position going forwards. Either of those players could easily emerge as a bonafide #1, and it give Gillies a clear shot to start in Stockton and develop, and it shouldn't cost the flames too much money. Ortio's qualifying offer would be, what... 850k? Reimer ... 3 million? 3.5 for 2 years?
That would be our goaltending sorted for possibly less than 4 million.
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