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Originally Posted by Sandman
We won't know what we've got in Wolf, or just how good Wallstedt or Askarov are until they've played in the bigs for a good while. If you look at the list of previous winners of the Baz Bastien Memorial Award (AHL Goalie of the Year), there is a heck of a lot of mediocrity when it comes to NHL projection- although Wolfie is the only one to win it back-to-back (LaBarbera won it twice). I still love Wolfie, though.
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I don’t know about “mediocrity”. Depends on how you define that I guess. The vast majority of the list had legitimate NHL careers or are in the midst of one.
Logan Thompson
Kaapo Kahkonen
Nedeljkovic
Petr Budaj
Matt Murray
Jake Allen
Bernier
Schneider
Michael Leighton
Labarbera
Roloson
Ryan Miller
Martin Biron
Manny Legacy
Felix Potvin
Corey Hirsch
The above are the highlights. There were very few complete missed on the list, maybe a handful. I wouldn’t use the word mediocrity that’s for sure. Maybe there are no superstars because they don’t tend to play in the AHL long enough to win this award.