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Originally Posted by Freeway
If the idea was Treliving didn't want to gamble a year of his core "going for it" on an untested starting goaltender, the guys available were basically Ben Bishop, Marc-Andre Fleury and Mike Smith. He went with the guy he knew the most with the lowest acquisition cost.
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Also the guy with the least term, keeping an option to promote Rittich, Gillies, or even Parsons to the NHL by 2019-20. Not exactly the worst trio of goaltenders there.