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Originally Posted by Textcritic
Well, it's not.
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.
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Johnson will not be played as the number one goalie? I wouldn't be too sure of that. I agree that Elliott still might turn it around but unless Johnson drops off, he won't be given many chances. You may not be giving enough notice to the significant discrepancy in their play this season.