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Originally Posted by Jay Random
You don't give a guy the starter's job because he looks great against AHL shooters. You give him the starter's job if he is your best goalie.
In head-to-head competition against Markstrom and Vladar in camp, Wolf didn't prove that he was the best goalie. They can't carry three goalies on the roster, so they had to send one down, and he's the only one who wouldn't have to go through waivers. End of story.
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Well, that, and the fact that he will benefit more from AHL starts than Markstrom or Vladar would if they were sent down, and the fact that sending a goaltender down got them as close as possible to the cap with Kylington on LTIR. There’s much more to management than simply placing the players with the most upside on the roster, regardless of development plans and contract status. And the team will take advantage of his waiver-free status to move him up and down to get him the number of starts they want him to have for his ongoing progression.