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Originally Posted by VladtheImpaler
It's the elephant in the room with Treliving... much great work, but if he cannot solve the goalie issue yet again... and I do appreciate there are legitimate excuses. If another season is down the drain because of goaltending, how much patience will there be?
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In fairness to Tre, last off season he did go out and get two of the top save % goalies from the year before, and although neither guy was a bonafide starter, each one had played 40+ games so they could in theory share the work load.
He also got them for just a 2nd round pick spent in acquisition cost (plus a 3rd if Elliott comes back) and a combined less than $4 million against the cap in a season where we were really struggling to get under the cap mainly because of bad signings made prior to Tre taking over (Smid, Wideman, Stajan).
The to top it all off the Flames went from 30th in sv% (0.892) to T19th (0.907) and 30th in goals against (260) to 17th (221) and made the playoffs. So I wouldn't say the season went down the drain, although the playoffs sure did quickly.