McDonald has the raw tools you need but he's far from a polished product. He's got size, athleticism and compete. He needs to quiet down his game a little bit, I think he overplays some pucks. That's a correctable mistake. Sometimes goalies takes years and years. Plenty of goalies took until their mid or late 20's to develop fully. Hard to write them off when they're that young.
The nice thing is that with Parsons, Gililes, Rittich and Schneider it makes McDonald basically a bonus chance at a goalie. Nobody is expecting much from him and that may allow him to surprise sometime down the line. Basically we can forget about him and if he suddenly gives us reason to take notice then great. The fact he was a 2nd rounder is ancient history at this point, no point lamenting it.
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