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Originally Posted by mrdonkey
IMO one of the big black marks on Treliving's record that still endures today is his decisions with goaltending. First we had the 3-headed monster that resulted in losing Byron for nothing. Then there was the Hiller/Ramo debacle. Yes, the team was rebuilding at the time but whatever, it still wasn't good. Brian Elliott, Eddie Lack, etc. And now we're hoping that a 36/37 year old Mike Smith can hold the fort down with two guys as backup who looked shaky to bad. I don't even know what the plan for next year is, God help us if it's going back to the Mike Smith well.
Having said that, I like Smith ok. He was pretty good last year but clearly isn't a long-term solution. If I'm Treliving I'm shopping Bennett for a young potential starting goalie in the mould of Andersson or Jones at the time they were traded. Relying on Parsons, Rittich, and Gillies as the future seems like a pretty big gamble to me.
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I hear what your saying but I don’t care who is in net. If this team cannot score goals the goalie back there could be Kipper and once he’s played into the ground it’s not going to work.
We HAVE to be able to score.
We can’t deflate as a team when we don’t score first or when the other team ties it.
Relying entirely on the only player whose job is to stop pucks just doesn’t work.
The Knights leaned on Fleury way too much and couldn’t score enough when it mattered .
Hopefully Peters and company has this team mentally prepared because this team looked horrific , confused, unmotivated , unwilling to compete and do what was necessary to win.
None of that’s on any flames goalie. I’m pretty confident in what we have coming up if Smith fails.
More than in the past with Ortio, Irving, and on and on.