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He was mediocre. Watching the games he let in plenty of questionable goals. It doesn't matter how many games he played and ten games is enough of a sample size to show he is a below-average goalie.
Who cares how well he played the year before!? The year before that he played poorly. He has a career save percentage of .897. Do those numbers indicate a good backup goalie? Do those numbers indicate a contract worthy of anything above the league minimum?
There is a glut of goalies that will be available this off-season. Starters and backups. Brossoit would have never received more than 1 million anywhere else based on his track record. As I said, overpaying by a $500,000 for a franchise that tends to watch it's dollar and cents is not a good strategy even if it is one year. That is $500,000 less to fill another hole.
You can believe what you want but 10 games is not enough to use sv% as a yardstick. It simply isn't statistically meaningful for that small a sample.
I disagree with your eye test too. IMO, he was good. He got no help whatsoever. His career sv% is not .897. It is .906. Not great, but not bad by backup goalie standards.
I agree with you about the pay. The same as last year, no raise, should have been the max. I would have offered him 1 mil. I don't think any other team would have offered him as much. They wouldn't watch the games and see how little support he got. They would look at the stats and offer him ~800k.
But I'm happy to have him back. I like his game.