People are talking about goaltending like it is some nebulous detached part of a hockey team. Maybe that is what happens when you don't have a reliable starter for a decade... We assume all goaltenders are mediocre and interchangeable. And so, yes, It would be awful to feel that way and to realize that the flames biggest FA signing in recent memory is for a goalie. What's the point? This team isn't good enough to have a good goalie and if they get good it will only be because of their stupid goalie and who wants that anyway?
The flames just signed an elite top 5 in his position player. That position is the most important position on the ice. Yes, more important than 1c or 1d. They play 60 minutes and are directly involved and responsible for more plays than any other player on a team and it's not remotely close. It would be so odd to hear a fan of a football team that just signed a top 5 quarter back after years of cycling through crappy quarter backs say that the only way this team goes to the super bowl is if Aaron Rodgers plays like a pro bowl quarter back.. Ya, that's why we got him.
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