The Dubnyk situation sure isn't looking good, that's for sure.
And here I was so optimistic because Duby and the Wild loved eachother so much during the run, both sides said they wanted to be back, it seemed like a sweetheart deal that was reasonable to both sides would be inevitable.
But I guess we simply can't have nice things.
I blame Backstrom, and Fletcher for signing him to that anchor of a contract. Willing to bet if Backstrom wasn't in the mix we'd be willing to give Dubnyk a contract closer to what he wants than whatever it is we're offering now because we'd have 3 million extra cap and an extra roster spot. Backstrom consumes both without giving any value back.
Led the league in wins in the shortened season. Can't really blame Fletcher for re-signing Backstrom to a 3-year deal after that, especially with the uncertainty surrounding Harding at the time. Money was fine as well, the guy had just led the league in wins.
can't blame Nik for signing the contract that was put in front of him. If my boss came up to me and said "guess what, you're getting a huge raise!, just want you to stick around for a few more years." I'm going to sign the paperwork so I can get my cash.
He took a pay-cut. After leading the league in wins.
A novel idea is: Why don't we just play Backstrom and Kuemper (and we cut free of Dubnyk)?
We paid Backstrom...let's play him.
Well I saw how the team played in front of him last year, could've been prime Dominik Hasek and he would've probably struggled to win games. I'm not saying Backstrom played great but the team had 0 confidence playing in front of him. Hard to believe that would change.
as far as backs , i blame the team doctors & goalie coaches for giving CF the green light to re-sign backs. i cant believe CF would have re-signed him knowing he wasn't close to 100%. as for dubnyk i'd play hardball with him!
Yeah, should've cut ties with the league leader in wins to replace him with Nikolai Khabbibulin, Tim Thomas, or Evgeni Nabokov. Or we're we banking on Josh Harding to never have a complication again and take a gamble on some type of combination of Thomas Greiss, Jeremy Smith, Michael Hutchinson(nowhere near the guy he is now), Anton Khudobin, Jason Labarbera, Ray Emery, Yann Danis, Richard Bachman, Dan Ellis(#problems), Carter Hutton, Chad Johnson, or Mike McKenna. We didn't have the assets to acquire Cory Schneider.