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iloveicedhockey · 05-12-2017, 02:09 PM

Yeah, I don't buy that he's been elite consistently. This past season he was below average but even in 2014-15 (0.916) he had price, duby, mason, Schneider, Crawford, Rinne, Anderson, holtby, Lundquist, Rask, lack, varlamov, Luongo, MAF, pavelec, hiller (!), quick, Bob and Elliott ahead of him (only included starters/borderline).

So two of four he's been great, two he's been below average.

If we could've got him for 5m I take the chance but as others have said we'd like be looking at 6m to play here, then you have the nmc/ntc on top. I don't think this deal ends up being just ok, it's either going to be a knockout for Dallas, or an anchor. It'll also be interesting to see how he takes to Hitchcock too, given Allen's resurgence after he was fired.

05-12-2017, 02:09 PM	#414
iloveicedhockey First Line Centre Join Date: Apr 2015 Exp:	Yeah, I don't buy that he's been elite consistently. This past season he was below average but even in 2014-15 (0.916) he had price, duby, mason, Schneider, Crawford, Rinne, Anderson, holtby, Lundquist, Rask, lack, varlamov, Luongo, MAF, pavelec, hiller (!), quick, Bob and Elliott ahead of him (only included starters/borderline). So two of four he's been great, two he's been below average. If we could've got him for 5m I take the chance but as others have said we'd like be looking at 6m to play here, then you have the nmc/ntc on top. I don't think this deal ends up being just ok, it's either going to be a knockout for Dallas, or an anchor. It'll also be interesting to see how he takes to Hitchcock too, given Allen's resurgence after he was fired. Last edited by iloveicedhockey; 05-12-2017 at 02:12 PM.