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It better, because it's not like you can cycle through Stanley Cup caliber goalies every few years like you can wingers.
Right now there is no indication as to why one of Woll or Scott could not be Andersen's successor down the line. It's no guarantee, but neither is any goalie the Leafs could acquire right now. There is also no reason why the Leafs could not just re-sign Andersen for another 3 or 4 years when he is a UFA. He's not playing like he deserves more than around what he's making right now anyways (besides the pro-rate of course), so he could be a Leaf until he's 36 if we need him to be. That's 7 years to hope that one of Scott or Woll can sort themselves out, and they've already entering year 2 or 3 of development with the Leafs as it is. Who knows, maybe even Sparks starts to surprise some people and can force Andersen out?
EDIT: For example, look at the contract Bishop signed right before turning 31. Andersen will be 32 when his deal is up. Bishop did have an off-year in his contract year, but he was 2nd for the Vezina the year before, put up a season that Andersen typically puts up the year before that, and was 3rd in Vezina the year before that. In the year between his epic years, he took a two-year bridge for ~6 mill per season. He ended up with a 6 year deal at just under 5 mill two offseasons ago. Unless Andersen has a meteoric rise in performance, he shouldn't be making any more than the 7% of cap he's making now on a 3 or 4 year deal when he's a UFA in three years. Since he would be pretty old and would probably rather have some term over dollar amount, he may even take a cut in percentage. Bishop took a rather large one for term. Let's say by some chance that means the cap is going to be 90 mill, he's still only making 6.3 mill a year after the pro-rate for 7% of the cap.
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