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Old 01-13-2018, 01:16 PM   #215
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Originally Posted by Regorium View Post
The NHL backup role is a place where you can have a bit of leeway to give a star AHL goalie some time. Mrazek, Gibson and Vasilevsky (for example) have all traveled this path, without their respective GM's getting a stop-gap backup like Lack.
Before they became established backups:

Detroit had Jonas Gustavsson as a safety net for Mrazek
Anaheim had Jason Labarbera as a safety net for Gibson
TB had Evgeni Nabokov as a safety net for Vasilevsky
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