back in the day when that brain**** waddell was running the atlanta laughers i thought of goalies that would replace marty and kari was my choice at the time when going over options…….and somehow thought how to pry "THE RUSSIAN" to jersey. …... and it happened……..cause the guy is well, stupid.
im amazed he fleeced a career in hockey management
in the end…..im happy with cory, the russian is in the past and waddell is still the worst garbage guy you would want to hire ….he embodies ass spit and brings it where were he goes
he's a cane dbag now
Lehtonen was one of the guys I wanted to replace Marty too. Schneider was one of my first choices, but I figured he was off limits and they would eventually buyout or trade Luongo and keep him going forward. Rinne and Pavelec were also on my short list at one time. Rinne was too old though, and he's also had numerous injuries over the last few years. This was before all of that though. Lehtonen is only a year younger than Rinne, but I was also thinking back in 2010 or so that Marty was gonna call it quits after 11-12. So Lehtonen would have been the same age or a year older than Cory was when Marty actually did leave, had he left after the 11-12 season.
I'm glad we were lucky enough to never get Pavelec. He's amazing to watch, but he's ****ing terrible and not adequate enough to be an NHL starting goaltender.
I've never thought of Montoya as a bust because I never thought he was that good in the first place but I'm probably in the minority on that one. Talk about building a reputation with one game.
You can't really call a goalie a bust until they're about 25 because so many are late bloomers, but Campbell is certainly looking like a bust.
Don't get me wrong, Campbell might be an NHL goaltender one day. He's AHL numbers don't look bad either, unlike a certain guy in our system. I just don't think he's gonna be anywhere near the position he was drafted in.
I didn't think Montoya was gonna be as great as his draft position or how highly touted he was early on, but I figured one day he'd be a decent starter somewhere.
Rangers fans kept arguing with me back in 04 and 05 that he was better than Marty and Richter, and that he would eventually own the wins record among American born goaltenders.
They wound up getting a pretty good goaltender anyway, one they drafted years before with a later round pick. So maybe they consider the Montoya pick a wash?
I always thought Blackburn (Blackwood's name reminds me of this guy too much, similar sound last name) was gonna be a big nothing. I know he had an unfortunate hand injury or something, but I always thought he was gonna be a bust.
It didn't help him that they brought him into the league at 18 to back up Richter. It's weird to think that Blackburn is only early 30s today, he was in the league almost 15 years ago.
