Why? Who would be better than someone who's almost a yearly vezina candidate / winner?
Some Jackets fans have seriously internalized the "playoff Bob" silliness.
Probably the best recent example of that was last night. We beat the Blues because they were incredibly sloppy - like they have been since the start of the season. Final score was 7-4, and our goaltender gave up those 4 goals on 37 shots (for another sub-.900 SV%). But because it was
Korpisalo who started instead of Bob, and because the final result was a W, there's been a persistent narrative of "they won it for Korpi, trade Bob".
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Who are CLB goalies behind Bobrovsky?
Korpisalo, pretty much; he looks like he could be a starter but not necessarily an exceptional one. Merzlikins is up-and-coming and looks really good, but isn't in North America yet and seems to be allergic to the AHL. Tarasov looks like he has the potential to be really good someday but it'll be a while. Vehvilainen looks like he could be an epic badass any moment now but is technically undersized (altho that admittedly hasn't stopped guys like, say, Saros) and we haven't tried to bring him over yet. Finally, there's Kivlenieks, who's backstopping Cleveland and likely to stay there.