I can see this happening to us.Bolts getting smoked 5-1 by Isles late in 3rd
-ghoste
I can see this happening to us.Bolts getting smoked 5-1 by Isles late in 3rd
I can see this happening to us.
-ghoste
I can see this happening to us.
-ghoste
Also if those goalie played like bob this year isles would be nowhere near a playoff spot. 2 way street
Hey, better than PDB....It was only a 6:3 lost for Boughner on his first Game as SJS Head coach.
It’s amazing what a real goalie coach will do for your technique.Reimer with his 2nd shutout of the year, 32 saves in a 4-0 win in CGY.
It’s amazing what a real goalie coach will do for your technique.
Really happy for Francouz. He's been great for the Czechs in many international competitions playing behind our typically awful defence. Was hoping he'd see NHL playing time last year; got the chance this year and so far seems to be doing really well with it.Watching the Avalanche tonight. They just look a step faster than all the other teams on TV. Now they have a hot goalie.
Glad the Panthers are done playing them this year. I definitely think they are better then when they played them.
He flip flops as much as before he just has a defense in front of him now
Dale says hello.You fools act like reimer is bad and is just behind a good d now. He had similar numbers with us before last year. .913 and a .920. Last year was An anomaly
Because we wanted elite goaltending, not just decent goaltending. If there was no cap, it's possible we keep Reimer as a backup.Dale says hello.
If Reimer is such a consistently good goalie besides last season, why did we have to trade him for Scott Darling's abysmal contract? Why didn't a team jump all over his availability and simply offer us something good for Reimer's services instead of taking Darling's anchor contract?
Aren't we still taking on Darling's cap hit? If I'm not mistaken, 1.2 this season and 2.3 next season of dead cap space. Obviously less than Reimer's full 3.4 cap hit, but we're still taking some space up with Scott Darling's buyout who is not contributing to this team. Having 1 bad season shouldn't diminish a goalie's value to the point of having to accept another team's cap dump, unless GMs (including Dale) all thought Reims was low quality/risky beyond just last season alone IMO. We would have probably bought out Reims if Canes weren't an option.Because we wanted elite goaltending, not just decent goaltending. If there was no cap, it's possible we keep Reimer as a backup.
Reimer had a bad year and was sold low, plus goalies have low trade value unless they're elite. There weren't a lot of goalie needs either, the market was very limited.
Aren't we still taking on Darling's cap hit? If I'm not mistaken, 1.2 this season and 2.3 next season of dead cap space. Obviously less than Reimer's full 3.4 cap hit, but we're still taking some space up with Scott Darling's buyout who is not contributing to this team. Having 1 bad season shouldn't diminish a goalie's value to the point of having to accept another team's cap dump, unless GMs (including Dale) all thought Reims was low quality/risky beyond just last season alone IMO. We would have probably bought out Reims if Canes weren't an option.
I'm not defending Reimer, we needed a change and we needed a major upgrade in net, Lu retirement gave us that option thankfully to go after Bob. Perhaps Dale didn't want to tie up so much money in the goalie position, but I feel the Darling trade showed how bad Reims' value was.
People who continue this “it’s all/mostly on the goalie” just don’t understand how much faster the puck moves versus a leg or an arm.
Yup, look at the Stars game. Bishop played badly. Bob played well. Bishop should have made some more saves, but he didn’t. The Strahl goal, the Scevior one possibly, maybe Acc’s penalty shot.Goat lending is all about probabilities i.e. covering as much as the net possible when facing the puck. The Cats' defense can't cope with basic defensive duties so Dale has to go and purchase arguably the best goalie in the last five years and one that can play like he doesn't have a defense in front of him... which is true. It's truly amusing that some think that a goalie can make a so-called "big save" for a shot taken five feet away from the net when reasoning already states it's not possible to react that quickly and it boils down to probabilities.
Next year is when Darling's cap is the biggest issue at 2.33 million. After that it's 1.18 mill for the final two years. Reimer's contract would've been 400k cheaper to buy out overall but would have carried a cap hit of 3.20 mill next year because of his signing bonus.The difference was the poison pill in Reimers contract. Buying him out had huge cap implications this year and next.
Darling's is technically higher, but the big hit doesnt arrive till I believe 2 seasons from now. By then, Seattle would have joined and there is an expected big cap jump that will take place because of the expansion.
The Darling trade was the lowest cost (cap wise) without sending assets back.
SOME coaches matter?As of today (Dec 27th) CBJ has Atkinson, Anderson, Bemstrom, Bjorkstrand, Dubinsky, Milano, Murray, Nutivaara, Peeke and Harrington all out with injury/illness and they are only 1 point behind us in the standings with 1 extra game played (they are tied with Tampa). With all these guys missing and the players they lost in the offseason, it's pretty amazing they aren't rock bottom with Detroit