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Originally Posted by CliffFletcher
Few goalies stick in the NHL without a lot of AHL seasoning first. Most have at least 100 games in the AHL under their belt.
Corey Crawford: 255 AHL games
Martin Jones: 158
Devan Dubnyk: 142
Cory Schneider: 136
Braden Holtby: 132
Cam Talbot: 116
Matt Murray: 72
Jonathan Quick: 71 (AHL + ECHL)
Gillies: 47
It's premature to pencil in Gillies as an NHL backup next season.
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To me that looks like you want to give Gilles about 40 AHL games next year and 10-15 NHL starts with 25 being a backup. The year after is similar. Then 3 years from now he takes the starter role having about 100 - 120 AHL games like those on the list.
Elliot on a 3 x 5 would be perfect with Gilles and Rittixh being backups