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Originally Posted by Textcritic
I am very intrigued by Halak.
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Other than last season (where he faced 30 shots a game and posted .915) he has never had a GA above 2.5.
Two seasons of 57 starts or more one of which he got the Islanders to game 7 of the first round against a very good Capitals team. The other one of those years, he posted a .910 - Bishop was his third stringer and posted a .899 (7GP) and Conklin posted a .881 (25 GP).
Got the 2010 Habs to the ECF including an upset of the President's Trophy winners.
Split the Jennings Trophy with Elliott in 2012 posting a .926 / 1.97 GAA over 46 starts
Got 2016 Team Europe to a sudden death OT Final against best-on-best Team Canada
Career .917 SV%
Can't say I see the "risk" people are talking about. Of course every goalie has some risk, we could acquire Cory Schneider and there could still be risk.
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Originally Posted by Strange Brew
Yep that would be a crazy risk. Halak would have been available on waivers last year, no?
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Halak was waived because he was the oldest/most expensive guy in a three-headed goalie monster. And no one had room to pick a goalie with a 4.5 million cap hit up off waivers. Half the league would have been better off with him in net the day he was "waived", including us.