Maybe I'm in the minority but I think goaltending, though crucial, is a lower priority concern for the flames.
They have much larger concerns in the way of the potential of moving 1-2 of their top line forwards, as well as coming to a realization that their D is NOT a franchise strength. As much as the forwards has been a question mark, I can see why the flames rumours revolve around Dmen. Gio's likely to regress down from being a top pairing d. The next most experienced D is Hanafin, who's nothing but an average defensive dman (who's not a great at defense mind you). Then you have question marks with Valimaki and Kylington. The only sure thing they have on D is Andersson being a top4 RD.
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