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But what about that Mason McDonald kid eh?
I've been mulling this over for a while as it has been eating away at me. I seem to recall there were reports that there was something that could potentially cause Demko's career to end which is why we went with MacDonald. Supposedly per scouts, both MacDonald and Demko were considered likely to become NHL calibre, but we selected MacDonald because he didn't have some condition or issue like Demko that could potentially end his career (he was ranked higher than MacDonald). I have no clue if somehow our development failed MacDonald like many others before him (thus we'd be saying the same of Demko vs MacDonald right now), or if there were other problems with MacDonald that caused him to falter.
I get hunches about goalies a lot and I feel like I would often have a good chance on success if based on my hunches, but I've always never liked righty catching goalies. I just cannot for the life of me get a good read/hunch on any of them like I can for lefty catchers and most of the ones I've ever followed don't do very well. Thus I generally dislike them for an unreasonable reason. It is for a similar reason I'm not as excited on Askarov than most.
The craziest other attribute about Demko that should have made him a Flame over MacDonald? He was back up to Jon Gilles in the 2014 IIHF tournament.
Binnington I was interested in before he won his cup in a Rittich trade.
Markstrom I was interested as a project in around 16-17 when I was walking down memory lane about guys like Herik Karlsson who was basically the same stature as Harvey the Hound. Darling and Dubnyk were also in that conversation as interesting projects... so two reasonable swings and a major miss in Darling I think isn't that bad, right?