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Originally Posted by agulati
Vasilevksiy played behind one of the best teams to be assembled in a cap era. Domingue had excellent numbers in a backup role as well behind that team. Bobrosvky has been plying his trade in locales like Philadelphia and Columbus. Goalies tend to have longer shelf lives, in any case.
Edit: I'm not saying Vasilevskiy is not a top 5 goalie in the league, but for a team that is built the way the lightning are, paying 9.5 million for a starting goalie in a cap world seems excessive.
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Well when it comes to goaltending if you have a top 5 goalie you probably want to hold on to him as long as possible because the alternative can be what you have seen in Alberta for most of this decade with the Flames and Oilers taking flyers on european goaltenders and recycling declining veteran goaltenders. I much preferred previous decade with Kipper when goaltending was never a question mark going into the season.