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Originally Posted by PepsiFree
I'm still not entirely sure why we would want Markstrom when we could just re-sign Talbot. He might be a bit older, but outside of his one terrible season, he's statistically been similar or better than Markstrom every year.
Markstrom might give you more runway for that age, but I don't think he's a great solution in net. Would rather swing for the fences on a younger guy than pay money and term for a middling starter over 30 (or just pay less money and term to the middling starter over 30 we already have).
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Because Talbot isn't good enough.
He had his opportunity to establish himself - and he fell apart.
I get that you don't want to tie up money in an older goalie, and I'm definitely not super sold on it either - but that doesn't mean you have to, or should go back to Talbot.
I'll be disappointed if we come back with Rittich and Talbot as the tandem. That tandem is more likely to be worse than it is to be better (age). Even if they come back and perform the same, we still have bottom-half goaltending and that's not good enough.