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Originally Posted by Bingo
Yes and no.
That essentially kills two birds with one stone and leaves the Penguins on the outside. Good move if you a) like Bobrovsky b) think he's healthy and c) won't have to give up much of anything else to make it happen given a) the size of his contract b) his injury history and c) the expansion draft on the horizon.
but if you see him as an injury prone has been it's a disaster
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I'm a big supporter of getting a Bobrovsky or Varlamov over majority of the goalies out there. the cap doesn't scare so much really. The Flames can function safely for the remaining 3 years of either Bobrovsky's or Varlamovs contracts. Seeing as the Flames had roughly the same amount of cap invested in their goaltending last year if you consider Ortio is going to get a 1 year deal at maybe 1 million or 1.2 depending on things. Maybe they just qualify him for the year too. So I'm not too worried.
Numbers wise Bob had a down year due to some long term injuries only suiting up for 37 games and still posted a .908 on a bad CLB team. I'm good with that as I do not think he will replicate this past season or fall off a cliff like Hiller did. He's 27 and really still just hitting his prime.
Health and durability is my concern. If he can stay healthy for 50 games he's worth the investment.
I just don't know how CLB considers Bob a cap dump which is where I think Boomer is on a sugar high. We've debated the merits of trading down to #10 from #6 where theres not a lot of talent gap to get Varly and still get a good pick and we are thinking reverse here where we trade up and get a #1? I cannot imagine the assets needed to make that happen are in a reasonable atmosphere.