Passchendaele
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They wanted to win the Cup?
Sounds fair. Until you remember that Patrick Roy retired on May 28 of that year (i.e. way before the FA Market opened).
From that moment on, the Avalanche was stuck with David Aebischer as their #1 goaltender. Sure, he had a pretty good regular season afterwards, but it was basically a crapshoot at this point as far as his reliability as a #1 was concerned at this time, having never played more than 26 games in a year.
In his later Habs-days, he was one of the worst goalies I'd seen with the team. It was almost comical.
The Red Wings sounded like a more logical choice at the time.. They had Joseph + Hasek (though I don't remember if he announed his comeback before or after the pair signed) and had just added D. Hatcher to their d-corps.
Sounds fair. Until you remember that Patrick Roy retired on May 28 of that year (i.e. way before the FA Market opened).
From that moment on, the Avalanche was stuck with David Aebischer as their #1 goaltender. Sure, he had a pretty good regular season afterwards, but it was basically a crapshoot at this point as far as his reliability as a #1 was concerned at this time, having never played more than 26 games in a year.
In his later Habs-days, he was one of the worst goalies I'd seen with the team. It was almost comical.
The Red Wings sounded like a more logical choice at the time.. They had Joseph + Hasek (though I don't remember if he announed his comeback before or after the pair signed) and had just added D. Hatcher to their d-corps.