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Originally Posted by devo22
which was the correct decision. Get a stop-gap for a year to be Smiths backup while Gillies continues to develop (don't forget he lost close to a full year to injury) in the AHL and Parsons gets tons of ECHL starts while he gets his feet wet in pro hockey. Next year transition Gillies to the NHL and let Parsons have the AHL net. That's a good plan in my opinion.
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In my opinion, Rittich and Gilles both showed enough last year to get the NHL backup spot.
I think it's just another instance of where Treliving doesn't consider our kids to ever be "ready" and we need stop-gap veterans for every spot.
Anyways sorry for derailing a bit. Glad Stockton won and of course Janko and Gilles (and Rittich) will be at the forefront of many more of those wins.