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I'm not advocating giving the starting job based on AHL shooters. I am saying the sample size of 2 lights out seasons in NHLs best developmental league is a much better measure than a couple of preseason games.
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Except ‘the NHL's best developmental league’ is exactly where you find those AHL shooters. Wolf's sample against NHL competition consists of this year's camp plus
one NHL game in garbage time last year.
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Honestly, the preseason is kind of an awful way to make roster decisions.
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That's why you go with the players who have already proved themselves at the NHL level, unless a prospect blows your socks off in camp… which Wolf hasn't.
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But thats for another day. Also, I am not necessarily advocating Wolf be the starter. I just think it is a waste of time burying him in the AHL against inferior competition.
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Which goalie do you want to lose on waivers instead? And what happens if you pick the wrong one?
You can either jump the gun and make that decision based on training camp, or you can keep your options open and send Wolf down.
EDIT: Markstrom has his NMC, so you have to send down Vladar (who probably wouldn't clear waivers) or Wolf (who is waiver-exempt). Makes the decision even more clear-cut.