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Originally Posted by Flames Draft Watcher
You don’t understand why Gillies is in the system? It’s pretty clear, they are trying to develop nhl goalies. Gillies still has NHL upside despite his poor season. Is he ready to be backing up or starting in the NHL? Doesn’t seem like it. When might he be ready? I dunno, development isn’t always linear and goalies can sometimes take forever to develop. As we know all too well from giving up on Roloson, Anderson and Giguere before they were fully developed.
Sounds like you’re just grumpy and impatient and your feelings on Smith are clouding your objectivity and reason. Management doesn’t think Smith = auto loss like some of you do. I’d be surprised if they have anywhere near the desperation to replace Smith that some of the haters have. Most likely we will be rolling with Smith as the backup the rest of the year and the haters are just gonna have to get used to it. The issue has been overblown because Rittich is doing well and we’re still getting wins with Smith. Backup goalie is not the critical position on the team that you’d think it was reading a thread like this.
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I like Gillies, I think he should have started ONE GAME
In this scenario, I start to question his NHL upside if he wasn't trusted to start - and a trainwreck happened