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Isabelle is a man!?!?
You mean a 30th overall finish where you pull yourself out of the #1 pick at the last second?If Grubauer can play like his most recent regular season self then this is a very good trade for us. While there are question marks about his consistency it has the potential to be a good and stabilizing move in net. The best outcome would be a Raanta like outcome from the trade.
2.9M
Gonna guess 3 years @ 2.7m
I'm guessing 3yrs, $10m total.
Isabelle is a man!?!?
I love this deal. We have one year now to evaluate both Grubs and Francouz and see if either or both could potentially be an NHL starter, then make an intelligent decision from that point. Grubauer is obviously already a capable backup at the very least, so him at 3 years is great because he'll very likely be a useful player throughout the deal.
Suddenly our goaltending situation looks great moving forward and all it cost us was a 2nd round pick and a bit of cap space.
Oh, and as an added benefit, players around the league will now have even greater respect for the Avs and Sakic after how he's treating Orpik (and how he treated Iginla and McLeod etc etc etc). That kind of thing could make a difference in the future when some free agent is deciding between signing with us or with someone else.
Honestly as much as i like them using one of their 2nds to improve the roster
I like Sakic being blunt about Orpik even more lol, this way we aint got to sit
trying to work him into the roster, having Brad Stuart flashbacks
Yeah this is much better than a buyout and having a cap hit that carries over the next year.Best case scenario is that the Avs retain 50% and manage to get a pick for Orpik from a contender