I looked through every team & I counted 15 teams who might have use for him, most of those teams are in greater need than us for a goalie upgrade, I'd guess we get outbid, not sure I want to pay the price for a premium tandem partner in terms of assets and in term of salary dollars.
Going through the numbers it's surprising the number of starting goalies who've fallen off of late and sorting the UFA goalie list by Sv% is kind of funny with Cam Talbot sitting right there at #3 after Khudobin and Lehner.
The UFA goalie I've been advocating for is Greiss, seems like he's good enough to challenge Koski, but not good enough to cost a starting goalie salary.
I'm curious what Holtby will get on the open market after 2 seasons of back-up numbers and the most recent season being AHL numbers. My gut says he still has more good hockey in him, decrease his workload and make him back-up and I'd guess it's a matter of time before the competitive juices start flowing and he rumbles back to a closer facsimile of his old self, he also has a habit of playing his best hockey in the playoffs which is a bonus. If we could get him for around $3M and for no more than 2 years, is a gamble I'd take. One curious thing with Holtby's fall off seems to coincide with Mitch Korn being promoted from goalie coach to Director of goaltending.
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Curious what are people's max amount of salary they'd want to allocate to goaltending? Ideally I'd want to be under $7M, but I'd be willing to go as high as $7.75M if I thought the other guy had a strong chance to steal the starting job.