Both guys will be out of the league after this year. Lack already was out of the league, but is up because of injury. Kinkaid will almost definitely be in the AHL next season, while we take the loss of paying him to play in the AHL and get someone better. At the very least, someone will be brought into camp and given a chance to take the job from Kinkaid, and will have the leg up and unless he ****s the bed like Wedgewood did in the 2016 preseason, that guy will probably get the job. Re-signing Kinkaid after last year was a no-brainer, even I was for it, better than rolling than Wedgewood (who is even worse than Kinkaid and still worse than Kinkaid), but with Cory not being as good as he used to be, nor as durable anymore, you need something better behind him after next year. Shero fired Terreri over Cory having a poor year last season, I don't think he'll **** around and go with this tandem again. If Cory missed more time or if we hadn't had such a huge lead in the standings at the time he was injured, this might have taken us out of the race completely. I can think of at least 4-5 games that we lost at least a point this month due to goaltending. Eye test backs it right up and I'm tired of both of these **** heads.
You NEED to be able to hold teams to 1-2 goals as a goalie sometimes and in 25 starts between Lack and Kinkaid, they've allowed fewer than 2 goals in only 3 of those games. Obviously, it's not fair to ask Lack to only allow 1 goal when he faces 51 shots like in Tampa or Kinkaid to only allow one goal on 41 shots against Carolina, but if there was a game to allow 1 goal for Kinkaid, it was last game. If there was a game for Lack to allow under 3 goals it was tonight. If there was a game for the two of them to combine for under 3-4 goals, it was the 5-3 loss to Ottawa where 4 of the 5 goals were stoppable and we scored 3 goals. If there was another game to ask Kinkaid to allow under 3 goals, it was against Calgary, when he allowed two bad goals. Both goals last game weren't good either, but it's not fair to ask him to have a shutout, but can't he at least stop the second goal from Manasquan Inlet? I can confidently say that almost 40% of the goals going in the last month have been stoppable ones. It's unrealistic to say they should not allow any stoppable goals, but we're doing a little bit better if only 20%-25% of the goals they allowed were stoppable and not 35%-40%.