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Originally Posted by VilleN
So, you're fine with Gillies taking the reins if Bishop gets injured? I am not, that is not responsible player development in my opinion.
Fleury didn't go anywhere at the draft last year, mainly because Rutherford didn't want to trade him because he didn't have to... he now has the luxury of two no. 1 goalies, a situation he likely wanted to have for as long as possible. However, with the expansion draft coming it is very likely Fleury gets traded, and I have not seen any indication that he won't come to Calgary - could be wrong - but I haven't heard anything.
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It's the same thing we did for nearly a decade. Nobody was complaining about it back then at all.
We only had one NHL caliber goalie named Miika Kiprusoff. He was expected to play 76 games a year since playing our backup goalie would cost us our chance at making the playoffs.
Henrik Lundquist getting hurt was the sole reason the world discovered Cam Talbot was a legit NHL starting goalie.
You won't know how good Gillies can be until he's given that opportunity.
Fact is and remains Gillies would have been a good option for Game #4. The team already knows there is a 96% chance that we are done. If Gillies were to have come in and win Game #4 and Game #5 all the sudden Calgary has found our goalie.
Instead our idiot coach goes right back to Brian "I need glasses" Elliot. Made zero sense to put the blind moose in net.
Anyways fans here are willing to risk it all on an unknown like Darling or Grubauer. Gillies has that same risk reward.