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Originally Posted by N-E-B
Agreed 100%. It's like last year when people blamed Treliving for the 3 goalie thing. That's such BS. If you're so mentally weak that the thought of Joni Ortio, Kari Ramo, or Jonas Hiller (none of whom have an NHL contract this year) taking your job rattled you, that's on the player, not the GM.
Blaming the coaches and GM's is too easy. Do they deserve some criticism? Yes absolutely, but this is 90% on the players.
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Sure, but there were also hockey experts and former goalies explaining that it's well known that rotating three goalies causes issues in goaltending performance.
Even Brad himself stated before the season that he wanted to get the goalie situation dealt with quickly because he knew it would be a distraction, but didn't because he was worried about losing Ortio on waivers (which is actually quite the hilarious worry in hindsight, but I get it at the time).
It's not just a "I feel my job isn't secure" psychological issue, it's an issue of routine, practice time and rhythm. So yes it definitely was strike against team management and not just the goalies. However the bigger issue last season was the actual talent level of our goaltenders, the three headed monster just made undesirable goaltending likely even worse to start the year.