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Originally Posted by butterfly
My initial reaction was to disagree with you, but I think you're actually right. It's the market inefficiency of the day: spending money on goaltending. I don't know how many examples we need to show that this doesn't yield wins.
Note: None of those teams except Buffalo could even afford to this.
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Right now they couldn't, but it's probably a trade that would happen at the deadline at the earliest and more likely in the offseason.
Also those stats about top goaltenders by save percentage making an average of $2.5M or whatever is a bit irrelevant. Because if you don't have one of those goalies then it's not like you can just go grab one for $2M and get top goaltending.
Sure it worked with Vegas and Adin Hill...but even if they thought Adin Hill would be as good as he was he wouldn't have been their third goalie going into the playoffs and only starting because of injury.
Goalies have always been random but when you don't have one it just means you're even more desperate to find one