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Originally Posted by Poe969
I disagree that someone like Grubauer would be the backup, IMO it would have been the same situation as Raanta starting in Phoenix or Talbot with the coil.
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Those examples are bottom of the league teams taking a flyer on an up and coming, but still unproven, goaltender, because they are used to being trampled on in the sewers of the league. For them, there wasn't much of a risk, other than the status quo, of passing the reins to someone's backup goaltender.
As for Treliving's Flames, who made the playoffs early in a rebuild, 2 out of the past 3 years, despite shooting blanks on goaltenders each year, there was much more at stake to again trust a goaltender that has yet to prove he can bear the workload of a starter.