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Originally Posted by Flames Draft Watcher
It's hard to have a reasonable discussion when people take unreasonable hyperbolic viewpoints. Smith is not as incompetent as the haters suggest he is. The goaltending issue is not as critical as the haters think it is. Sacrificing the long term to slightly improve our goaltending for this season makes no long term sense. Suggesting the Flames make a major move in goaltending makes no sense when it looks like they may have finally succeeded in developing a young goalie into a young starter.
Backup goalie ranks right up there with 13th/14th forwards and 7th defensemen as the least critical role on the team. You'd think from all the outcry that it was one of the most important.
The Smith is a massive problem that must go immediately camp and the Smith is our backup goalie for the rest of the season camp will never see eye to eye no matter what the quality of the discussion on this season is. Some people have made up their mind that Smith is finished and no amount of reasonable discussion will convince them otherwise. Some appear to be convinced that backup goaltending is an achilles heel preventing us from winning the cup this year. That to me seems crazy but I'm not sure I can talk anyone out of that opinion.
I will say that hyperbole tends to bring down any quality of discussion on this board. Just make your point. There's no reason to exaggerate it or blow it out of proportion.
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In the modern NHL back up goalies play 30+ games on most teams. That’s far, far more important than 13th forward. It’s probsbly more important than 3rd line centre or #4 defensemsn.