Bruce Granville
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So even excluding the top end/elite guys (Price, Lundqvist, Quick, Rinne), here are other starting goalies in the league:
Smith $5.6
Hiller $4.5
Scheider $6
Lehotonen $5.9
Halak $4.5
Howard $5.3
Fleury $5.75
Varlamov $5.9
Anderson $4.2
Bishop $5.9
Mason $4.1
And some people want to walk away if Dubnyk gets > $3? That number is in no way, shape or form realistic for somebody in his situation. If that's the case, he is long gone, and we'd better come to grips with the idea that our next couple of seasons are resting on somebody like Enroth or Ramo.
Overpaying a goalie obviously doesn't bring you success.
Imo both starting goalies in the SCF are not worth their money.
Holtby makes 1.85M, Andersen 1.15M and Blues pay their duo 3.3M.
So it is possible to get decent goaltending at a reasonable price.
Like Dubnyk for 0.8M.
I totally understand Dubnyk. He has not have a real paycheck so far. It might be his first and last huge contract.
If I were him, I'd wish for something in the 20-25M range for 4-5 years. Or even 30M for the rest of the career.
But, unfortunately we are the wrong team for this.
And there are not that many teams left, who are playoff bound and have enough cap room.
In the end we take Ramo and Raanta for 3-4M total, Dubs ends up in San Jose with 5M and everyone won't be too happy.