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Originally Posted by Bingo
You're messing up the timeline.
The Flames were hot after Bishop at the draft but Tampa wanted Calgary's 6th overall pick included. Rumours were all over the place.
His signing expectation in Calgary at the time was 7x7
Later in the year he got hurt, lost the starting job and was moved for way less, but refused to go to Calgary at the time as they were hot after him again. He went to L.A.
In the summer his market value was down and he signed in Dallas.
Pretty much all of that was in the news / rumours of the time.
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I'm not messing up the timeline. I'm just only talking about 2017, not 2016, which is too far back in hindsight for my liking.
2017 was when first LA bought him from Tampa, and then Dallas bought his rights from LA for a 4th, which is less than what we later paid for Smith later that summer.
And that's just one goalie we absolutely know was available for less than what we paid for. There were a lot of goalies available last season. Smith was neither particularly cheap nor especially good (if not the worst either), and now we're (at least rumoured) to be again considering spending assets for another goalie, because Smith is getting up there in age. Which is of course the one thing was absolutely certain to happen.
While Bishop is signed to a very reasonable contract. Which is not a surprise considering when Dallas bought his rights.
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Originally Posted by PepsiFree
But yeah, bummer, we missed out on paying more for a goalie that had the same SV% as Mike Smith last year. Shucks.
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Smith is five years older. The only reason to pay more for a significantly older goalie is if that goalie is better. He's not. That makes Smith clearly the worse choice.