Quoting: Alfie11
You don’t think they’re exposing Murray? Gustavsson has been the future for a while and was really good this year, I’d imagine they’d want to protect their young, future starter than the slightly older, overpaid goalie who struggled this year. They can say all the nice things about thinking he can bounce back but that doesn’t make exposing Gustavsson the right decision in any scenario imo. I can understand protecting Zaitsev over J. Brown (mostly because neither are good but Zaitsev at least plays regularly), but it makes more sense to expose Zaitsev because taking that contract helps us. White will be protected.
Zaitsev plays 23 minutes a night, and they like him, continuing to say he’s hard to play against.
Murray is their golden boy right now. If the organization thought Gus was ready, they wouldn’t have signed Murray. The team understands that a proven starter that played very well once healthy, is a safer bet than a 23 year old prospect with 9 NHL games.
I think Seattle takes a goalie, and it might be Gus, but the team still has Daccord, Sogaard, and Merilainen.
I’m expecting;
NHL Murray, Forsberg
AHL Gustavsson, Daccord, Sogaard (two of)