Boom Boom Apathy
I am the Professor. Deal with it!
- Sep 6, 2006
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I agree that it's tough to go to your boss and tell him that you made a $16.6M mistake. On one hand, Scott Darling's last 3 years in Chicago had him with SV% of .936, .915, and .924 over 74 total games. There was no reason to assume he was going to come into Raleigh and **** the bed. Now those sheets have been shat upon.
True. Every single GM h as to tell their boss they made a mistake with a big signing, and if they've been around a few years, multiple times. That's the price you pay and risk you take signing UFAs. If Dundon really opens his pocketbook like most of us think's he will, then this won't be RF's last mistake either. Guys like Rick Nash, Evander Kane, JVR, James Neal, and the like are going to cost a fortune in free agency, and some of them will end up being bought out.
Why do the Canes break every goalie that drops off their suitcase in Raleigh? Every drafted goalie, Kuodobin, Lack, Darling, etc.
In the past, it's because we iced a defense with Corvo, Gleason, Sanguinetti, MAB, McBain, Harrison, Bellemore and Faulk. Now, I think it has to do with the contrast in style of play the team uses vs. a goalies style. That article last year about how Lack was a terrible match made a lot of sense to me. Darling never looked comfortable to me in the net, even when he played "well".