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Originally Posted by freakinsaprikin
Kari Ramo was number 3 on worst signings of the summer.
The main contention is that we could have got a goaltender with a better save percentage over the time he is been back in the NHL for much cheaper.
They used Griess and McElhinney as examples of Goalies with comparable, but better save percentages, over the same period that signed for less then 2 million.
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Thing is, save percentages won't tell you which backup goaltenders can take over as starters, their mental makeup, their work ethic, how they perform when the book on them is out there, etc. That's why guys like Scrivens and Fasth have been such disasters up North. We know for a fact that Ramo is a proven goaltender whose save percentage is more an indictment on how bad our middle and bottom pairings were defensively than how "average" he is.