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Originally Posted by 1qqaaz
Obviously the "guarantee" is superlative because it's for a hypothetical disaster scenario. Hot takes are like this. In a vacuum, Wolf is probably a better goalie than Domingue. Right now.
Well out of the top 10 goalies in the NHL, I believe most all of them were starters by 23, and most of them were in the NHL as backups by 20.
Gibson, Vasilevskiy, Price, Hart, Hellebuyck and Lehner were all starters by 23. They all played in the NHL as 20 year olds. Murray won 2 cups by 22. Even Markstrom, Varlamov, Rask and Holtby played in the NHL at around 20 years old.
This is part of the problem with the Flames goalie development. They don't give their young goalies chances. And I realize this kind of goes against common intuition.
There are pretty much no elite goalies who didn't get NHL experience in their early 20s. I'm not saying the Flames should play Wolf now. But I'm saying they should play him sooner rather than later.
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Wolf is likely not a better goalie than Dominique right now. In fact, he may never be. Maybe in a vacuum he is, but he likely isn’t on the ice.
All the goalies you mentioned were high draft picks.
Crawford was a 2nd round pick who had a very few cups of coffee in the NHL before becoming a regular at 26 years of age.
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