Lil Sebastian Cossa
Opinions are share are my own personal opinions.
- Jul 6, 2012
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When Osgood was signed, Dom was in Ottawa...
Osgood was actually brought back to be a starter and loyalty likely had little to do with it... Joseph wasn't coming back, they (rightfully) never seemed to trust running with Legace as the clear cut #1, and once the Hawks made Khabibulin the highest (and eventually most over)paid goalie in the league, Osgood was the best goalie available coming off a 67 game season where he was 2.24 and .910.
If there was any loyalty at play, it was Osgood accepting peanuts ($900k!) to come back to a team he previously enjoyed playing for.
The alternatives at the time were Mike Dunham or a crusty Sean Burke who ended up getting paid almost twice as much as Osgood to be a backup in Tampa...
Ah, my mistake. I remembered that Ozzie took the 900k contract and I figured that was because he was basically out of hockey and the Wings brought him back. Wow, I completely blanked on Ozzie even being in net for us from 2005-2007. Man, I'm a crap fan.
E: I just looked it back up... damn, Ozzie was a better goalie than I remember him being in the 2000s. I just had it in my mind he was a regular season mediocre guy and he turned studly in 08 and 09 like out of nowhere.
That was not the case at all.