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Originally Posted by gamesaver
Feels like cherry picking. If you sign UFA goalies approaching the end of their carreer (Smith, Hiller, Elliot, now Marky) of course they are about to regress. I would argue Rittich has turned out pretty good for an undrafted euro goalie who was not even that highly regarded in Europe. Now he is a full time NHLer. The goaltending has been an issue since the end of Kipper era though. But I think it's more about targeting a young talent. They just insist on throwing money at the problem with all these UFA signings, but none of it is a real long term solution.
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They don’t have a good track record of drafting goalies
Maybe Wolf is different but that is TBD