It's really amazing how good Schneider makes us. I would not trade Schneider for Patty Kane or Erik Karlsson, they would not make this team better than with Schneider in net.
Goaltending>>>>Every other position. I would have traded the first overall pick if we had it that year we traded for Cory.
I hate to continue beating up on Kinkaid, but we're probably the worst team in the league with this year's version of Kinkaid starting as many games as Cory had.
And then we'd have this complete misinterpretation that outside fans make.
''That D they have over in New Jersey is the worst in the league. You can't judge any goaltender playing behind that team. Remember how bad Mason was on Columbus? Or how bad Dubnyk was that last season in Edmonton?'' just like they constantly do with teams like Edmonton and Arizona, Carolina and Calgary too. And whatever other team had ****** goaltending and was dead near last in goals against.
Not that most of those teams have particularly great defense, I'm just saying.
Even with a league average goaltender starting most of the games like say Antti Niemi, we're probably a bottom 2 or 3 team with how poor the offense is.