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I agree that paying your goalie the top dollars doesn’t make sense anymore.Yeah I mean that was kind of my point though. Precisely the fact that Binnington and others have gone on absolute heaters. Binnington was an unknown and has since been a middle of the pack goalie. Same thing with Cam Ward for example, after that absolute playoff tare he never lived up to the hype. So that’s my point, goalies coming out of nowhere and going berserk is kinda lowkey common. Halak too remember? But yes indeed you need a good goalie that can make great saves or you can also get yourself a monster team and win it with Kuemper… the truth lies probably somewhere in the middle. I brought it up because Stolarz is an example of yet another very very decent backup that we’ve had through the years and makes me wonder if they would’ve sufficed if we had spread Bobs money around and built a better team in front of them. With Knight, there’s still lots of uncertainty to have committed so early. But we’ll see. Just saying I have no reservations dealing him if it means we can get someone that helps us now.
And I agree that if there’s a good trade for Knight, do it. We sent Markstrom away, took him a few years to develop into a near-top goalie, but even then given the development time needed, I have no regrets. So I doubt I’d worry about losing Knight.
And we’re all looking forward to getting Bob’s albatross contract off the books, as good as he was in the playoffs.