Penaltykiller17
Registered User
Our previous moves haven’t all worked out very well. We are cap restrained. I don’t believe anyone is taking one of our goalies without us taking the same money back. This makes moving one our goalies and then beating market price for a ufa less than likely. I’m more worried about signing Dougie at this point.
Really big issue is that we are officially in our window to win a cup based on age. This is this groups prime....right now. Every year we don’t take a stab we are wasting the best years of these players careers. Slavin/Pesce/Dougie(?)/Skjei/Aho/TT and I think Svech are all where they need to be. All the others are prime aged as well including Trocheck, Marty, Foegele, with young legs in Geekie/Necas/hopefully Bean pushing their way in the picture.
Wherever the gaps are this management is on the clock to make that core win a cup or at least start threatening. We clearly aren’t there yet. We can’t just hope on the current group improving.
I could easily see a team with a UFA goalie taking on either of our goalies contract in the event there player switches teams. Mrazek and/or Reimer’s contracts are expiring, and are a relative bargain compared to what some other goalies their caliber make.
And while I agree that resigning Hamilton is more of a priority, it isn’t the only thing GMDW should focus on. And if you think we’re in our window of opportunity, why wouldn’t you also be in search for a better goaltender?