missinthejets
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- Dec 24, 2005
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No, absolutely NO. This assume that every player is exactly the same and can achieve exactly the same thing, the only difference is development, which I doubt even you believe.
Devan Dubnyk isn't a 23 to 25 year old the team is cutting bait on, he's was with the organization for a decade, 10 years of development, the last 3 in the NHL. If he was going to be a full time NHL starter, he would have shown the consistency to do that, he has not and did not, that why he's not an Oilers any more.
Look at Andres Lindback, develop in a place where they develop goalies "right", Nashville, does not look to have anything close to the consistency to be an NHL starter. Looks like he has the tools, but not the game, why? Because he's been poorly develop or as a player he simple can't achieve this? Probably the latter.
This the problem, everyone assumes the goalies are just plug and play, they aren't they tough to figure out and not all of them will be great if you just develop them properly. Like forwards and defensemen, some goalies don't have what it takes.
No you are missing the point, I'm not making any concrete statements, I am simply suggesting that it might have been possible with better development for Dubnyk to turn out better than he did. You have to admit that Dubnyks development path was pretty ****ed up. It is impressive that he survived it and even got a chance to be a starter for a while. I'm simply posing a what if situation not making any definitive claims one way or the other. You're the one doing that by saying he always sucked. There's a grey area in the world you know.