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Originally Posted by Textcritic
I agree. The bird in the hand is worth two in the bush, or something like that. With how closely all these sorts of goalies rank in comparison the Flames are better off sticking with what they have unless faced with a dramatic and obvious upgrade. Dansk is not an upgrade.
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Don't disagree about Dansk vs. Gilles and Rittich. But IMO, one of the latter two has to make a strong showing in the remaining preseason games. If not, the Flames need to get a credible 2nd goalie to play with Smith. They can't afford to throw away any points in what will be a tight Pacific Division.
As has been pointed out, Toronto will have to choose between McElhinney and Sparks. Picking up McBackup would be a big upgrade for Calgary - in 3 of his last 4 seasons he's put up .934, .917, and .914 sv%s, playing an average of 23 games in those seasons.
The last time the Flames had a backup who had a >/=.914 sv% playing more than 10 games. . . . Roman Turek in 2003/04!