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Originally Posted by Jay Random
You ask the question, and then answer it yourself:
There were not ‘at least a dozen better options’ that didn't involve trading away significant assets or taking on a significant cap hit.
Lack was a cheap way to plug a hole, and he hasn't failed yet. The Detroit game was a disaster all round; can't hang that on the goalie, especially when Gillies came in and performed just as badly. Every team has games like that. Hell, Pittsburgh got shellacked 10-1 last month, and Matt Murray was in net for six of those goals. As the cliché goes, you burn the tape and move on.
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Pickard, Enroth, McBackup, Johnson, Bernier, off the top of my head. Then there's Euro goalies, Ramo, Ortio (only half joking) sure there's at least 5 other guys better than Lack, and in the same price range