I had to check on Sateri and Sexsmith. I suppose my memory of them was from preseason.
That just depressed me beyond belief.
YEah it's not great. Plus they had a few UDFA goalies that never went anywhere like JP Anderson and Thomas Heemskerk.
Part of it is that goalies are voodoo. Part of it also seems like it's probable that their scouts may not have valued the right things (as a fan of the Vancouver Gaints, them drafting Tyson Sexmith was really weird to me because I never thought he was a goalie with high pro potential. He was a system goaltender who benefited from the fact that then-coach Don Hay played the most smothering trap game possible)
I would hope that by now they've turned over the scouting staff to the point that those flaws are not longer omnipresent, though obviously the most recent guys like Beaupit, Gaudreau, and Emond don't exactly change the narrative.
The other issue is that they might need to just cast a wide net and get a bunch of prospects. The only problem there is that it could be considered to be "wasting" draft picks if they were to pick like 4 or 5 goalies over 2 years to really try and get as many lottery tickets as possible.
And while Sexsmith may have bombed, if they want to go back to the Vancouver Giants, I'd be on board with them tossing a prospect camp invite at Brett Mirwald, the 20 year old graduating Giants goalie from the last couple of years. He's not the biggest goalie (6'1) but at his peak the last couple of years he absolutely stole some games for a young team that didn't always have the best defensive unit.