Regarding Ortio - I can discount the beginning of the year struggles. He didn't play a game for basically a month and was really only terrible in the Montreal game.
The AHL play this year is less forgivable but I can understand a guy being disappointed at being sent down when he was on a one way contract and the guys who stayed up over him were expensive and terrible (Ramo's better play came after Ortio went down).
I'd rather pay Ortio $800k-$1M and have him battle with one of these mid-tier question mark goalies like Reimer (who will likely be paid in $4M-$5M range), than spend $4M on two of these mid-tier guys. At least then you're saving some cap money.
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