Blackhawks’ GM Stan Bowman agrees with you in not overpaying for good goaltending unlike that moronic Peter Chiarelli who gave Tukka Rask $7M for 7 years (remember it was Tim Thomas who won the 2011 Cup for the Bruins) even though Julien’s defence first strategy was paying dividends back then. Chiarelli and Bergevin are in the same camp in that respect.
Agree because most 2nd goalies doesn't want to start every game. They are not constant enough, not enough nhl experience or strong physically to do that.
How often do you see teams firing a head coach whose club was in first place? Teams have fired head coaches whose teams were in playoff contention like Sweet Lou dumping Robbie Fitorek (and replacing him with Larry Robinson who won the Cup that season) and Claude Julien out of the blue.He got Therrien fired didn't he? Maybe he's working on Bergevin now.
A few years ago after Jonathan Quick was seriously injured, Peter Budaj (whom the Habs didn’t want and banished him to St. John’s) took over and became the regular puck stopper and he relished playing every game. The same applied to then Habs’ rookie Mike Condon. Backup goalies want to be No. 1 on their team and any goalie who is content with being a backup deserved to be released.
Ya no kidding, in a cap world if you have a good defensive squad...why double down on defense and overpay for a goalie? It's overkill. You bring up Rask, Khudobin has essentially the same numbers as him.
Bringing Price back at the tail end of this dumpster fire of a season was plain stupid. He's done so much for this franchise, we should have let him take the last 2 weeks off. Something isn't right with him this year. No properly run organization would have returned him to the lineup this late.
He got Therrien fired didn't he? Maybe he's working on Bergevin now.
Speaking of Patches ... The captaincy had been weighing on him and his cliche responses were tiring to hear. For his sake, strip the C off of his jersey and be like the Leafs and have no captain. Since he wasn't dealt at the February 2018 trade deadline, at the next opportunity, Bergy better deal him.
Carey Price excelled at international competition and like Ovie, Crosby and especially Connor McDavid, Price was not happy the NHL didn't participate in the 2018 Winter Olympics. Perhaps after Team Canada NHL had participated and won the Gold Medal again, Price might have been a different goalie for the Habs.
Career numbers for Goalie - #of games played - GAA - save %
Even if Bergy re-signs Niemi, it won't be much more than the $700,000 or so he's currently earning. Bergy signed Al Montoya and then dispatched him to the Oilers when he became healthy again.
Well he used half your nickname.
He hasn't played >50 games since 14-15, and while he did play 48 in 15-16 he had a .905 sv%.
Wasn't that the decimated Swedish team? I don't remember him pulling any miracles.
His two sub par seasons were the ones he played in Dallas - a team that lacked defence. Now we have to decide whether those numbers are due to his decline or the team he was playing on.
