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Originally Posted by Split98
Really? Because your post is well summarized to me with this...
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Well, it's not.
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Which, is a opinion that I strongly disagree with. It's pretty easy to claim re-written history would favour your opinion, but looking back at the state of the team before his run absolutely shows the contrary. Things were looking bad for the Flames, and the outlook was grim. It was on Johnson's back that this season was saved and I'm very confident in that.
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This is a discussion about whether to re-sign Brian Elliott and a good deal of that decision incorporates Johnson's play to date. You are the one who forwarded the opinion about how much worse the team would be without Johnson, to which I responded specifically within the larger rebuttal that was intended to address this issue. I am not nearly as confident as you are, and will not be at all surprised to see Elliott perform well again when the team will need him to do so.
The bottom line here being that Johnson has not and will not be played as the number one goalie for the Flames this year. While he has acquitted himself well to this point, there is no reason to make a change to the current goalie rotation which is working fairly well—not perfectly, but well enough. This IS NOT the time to be drawing sweeping conclusions about either goalie, and while I am of the opinion that Brian Elliott should not be re-signed today, I am also open to the possibility that this could change by the end of the season.