if we gave thomas away we had clemmer as the back up and there will be some good goalies available this year. so we saddled ourselves with a below par back up for another year, lost out on a possible goalie acquisition. if luongo has any injuries we are in deep doo doo. would of rather gotten a good young back up!!! if you look at all the contending teams, they all have extremely good back up goalies who can steal games and start in case of injuries, etc. can you say that about ellis. again ask dallas fans what they think about him! it is a BIG DEAL, especially with a hopefully fringe playoff team where every game is important!