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Originally Posted by opendoor
Lack could be a good pickup. He was excellent in Vancouver and was a huge reason why they even made the playoffs in 2015. Then he got traded to Carolina where they messed with his style and tried to make him play like Cam Ward which is the opposite of what he should be doing.
From what I understand he reverted more to his old style for the 16-17 season, but he had some injury troubles early one. Once he got back healthy in February, he was actually quite good to finish the year. Over the last 2 months of the season he managed a 7-4-2 record with a .922 sv%.
Worst case scenario you have an excellent AHL goalie on a pretty low salary but more likely a decent backup who's good in the room and in the community. As for best case scenario, if he can get back to what he was in Vancouver he could be a decent starter. He outplayed both Luongo and Miller in his time backing those guys up.
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Minus a 10-12 game run, Chad Johnson was very average for this team last year. If Lack is somewhere in between the .895% - .922% guy the Flames will be just fine.