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Originally Posted by PepsiFree
Two goalies, similar career stats, similar ages, similar highs, similar lows, both with glaring issues in their game, both once having success on VERY defence-oriented squads, neither having won a single thing, both happily replaced by their teams as they're in their prime with younger goalies, both coming off bad seasons...
Yet the one who couldn't help either team he was on get to the playoffs is elite, and the guy who couldn't get his team past the first round is talked about like garbage.
But no, it'll work. Let's pay Bishop 5m+ over 5y+ because despite being marginally better than Elliott we call him "elite."
I don't mind either goalie, but pretending like there is chasm between their individual ability levels is just not true by any measure. At this point I'd be happy with neither.
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Since when is Tampa a defensively orientated squad? Maybe this year when injuries forced them to be (I don't know I didn't follow), but they sure weren't the past few years before that. Run and gun with offensive defencemen. Elliott wouldn't have lasted a year in that system.