[Signing] Senators sign Craig Anderson to 3 year extension ($4.2 mil AAV)

[sureLoss]

http://senators.nhl.com/club/news.htm?id=729026

Ottawa Senators general manager Bryan Murray announced today the club has agreed to terms with goaltender Craig Anderson on a three-year contract extension which will run through the end of the 2017-18 National Hockey League season. The average annual value of the contract is $4.2 million ($4.75M, $4.75M, $3.1M).

[Table 5]

Anderson has carved out quite a nice career for himself. I always kind of figured he would just fade away after his Flames stint….but I guess it just goes to show how damn long goalies can take to get their career going.

[Poe969]

I don't think the sens will be as bad as a lot of people are saying. I think Anderson ends up having another good year...

[terminator]

Is this not a hell of a deal for the sens?

[Cali Panthers Fan]

Interesting. That is not exactly a starting goalie's salary, more of a 1B salary. I think you will slowly see Lehner take over in Ottawa and Anderson (who isn't that young anymore) will slowly turn into a top notch backup like Giguere did.

[TherapyforGlencross]

Good deal, but I wonder when Lehner will push Anderson out of the 1st goaltender position.

[bubbsy]

i'm not sold on the senators goaltending. There were times they looked solid, but then last season there were definite streaks of sub-par performances.

Senators are weak offensively, their d is suspect and trending towards more youth (which typically comes wiht growing pains) so there's a lot of pressure on the goaltending to pick up the slack in order to get the Ws. I'd take the "under" on how many times that happens this season.

[Bandwagon In Flames]

I see Anderson as a 1A/1B just due to his trouble staying healthy for an entire season. He's been hampered with mostly minor injuries the last few years if I recall correctly.

Sold deal even if Lehner ends up getting more starts in a year or two.

[Erick Estrada]

He wasn't that great last season so I'm a little surprised the Senators committed to him for three years but maybe they are hoping that his numbers were due to the team not exactly playing committed defensively.

[DOOM]

Originally Posted by terminator

Is this not a hell of a deal for the sens?

Given his play last year, I don't think it is.

[Poe969]

but if he keeps up with the whole "bad year-good year-bad year-good year" thing then they'll have him for 2 good years!