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Originally Posted by Erick Estrada
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.
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That is a fair point. I'm thinking more about the fact that teams are moving towards tandems. Vasilevskiy himself played only 53 games last year. I'd think Bobrovsky will be playing around 70 games a year to justify his 10 million price tag. On top of that Florida is a team that is built to rely on their goaltending a decent bit. Tampa Bay (or even Calgary) have decent defense cores that share the defensive burden to a greater extent.