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Originally Posted by TheScorpion
If Treliving doesn't manage to get Schneider or Murray, I will be dissatisfied. It's damn time the Flames acquired a proven legit #1.
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Listing two goalies who likely won't even be on the trade market... You're going to be dissatisfied. We are in a tough position, proven, consistent number 1 goalies are very difficult to acquire- no team wants to get rid of them.
The fact that MAF may be available is very lucky for us IMO, he has some consistency issues but he's relatively young, and he's won a cup and is possibly on his way to another. Goalies like that don't become available very often.
To me, MAF is the safest option we have. The guy has proven he can be a starter, and can contend in the playoffs (barring a few bad series). Bringing him in with Johnson backing up wouldn't be that bad... Sure, he could be terrible but we know for a fact that he could also be a great goalie, as he's demonstrated before.
If we gamble and go for a guy like Grubauer or Raanta we may be acquiring our new number one goalie for the next 10 years or we may be signing another future backup goalie - there's not enough evidence to know, which makes this the biggest gamble IMO.
I'd be happy if we got MAF, had Johnson backing up and gave Gillies 10 or so games to see where he's at. Or we could just get Carey Price.