He started off on fire and really good. He fell off badly after that big injury and he's been struggling since.
I'd be very surprised if he's back next year. I don't think it'll be a buy out necessarily since there are plenty of teams that would take a 1 year flyer for cheap. A rebuilding team with a ton of cap space would probably like him enough. The only issue is his NTC and his salary will be 8M.
October (1gp) 0 wins & 1 loss. 3.01 GA, 903 SV%.
November (6gp) 5 wins & 1 loss. 2.17 GA, 938 SV%.
December (7gp) 4 wins, 2 loss, 1 OTL. 2.44 GA, 911 SV%.
January (5gp) 2 wins, 2 loss, 1 no decision. 3.69 GA, 883 SV%.
March (6gp) 3 wins & 3 loss. 3.68GA, 886 SV%.
April (1gp) 0 wins & 1 loss. 7.38 GA, 714 SV%.
His numbers in November and December were very good (a total of 13gp) but outside of that he was often injured (unavailable) and utterly terrible when he did play (remaining 13gp). His cap hit has done much more worse for this team throughout the season than his good 13 game run in Nov & Dec.
This trade was an absolute disaster for a cap strapped team that has needed tip toe around the cap every day of the season.