Modifié 10 févr. 2022 à 18 h 53. Raison: added a thought
Quoting: TrueCanuck
Well I can't speak for teams for who's gonna be available, but off the top of my head (in no particular order):
Chris Driedger
Alex Georgiev
Antti Raanta
Kappo Kahkonen/Cam Talbot
Semyon Varlamov
Jonathan Bernier
Jake Allen
Then free agents there's still the likes of:
Marc-Andre Fleury
Darcy Kuemper
Joonas Korpisalo
Braden Holtby
Now you can argue who Campbell is better than on that list or not; but a tandem of any two of those goalies for under $7M total is guaranteed to be better than Campbell and Skinner (who's an AHL goalie) and then be able to spend money elsewhere depending how much is saved
You have an interesting concept of who is of similar value to Jack Campbell.
To begin with, your initial objection to Campbell was that he is “on the wrong side of 30.” Then, as comparables, you list Marc-Andre Fleury (37), Cam Talbot (turns 35 in the off-season), Semyon Varlamov (turns 34 at the end of this season), Jonathan Bernier (turns 34 in the off-season), Antti Raanta (turns 33 at the end of this season and has an injury history), and Jake Allen (turns 32 during the off-season). Signing them long-term, which was your first complaint, would seem an even worse idea than signing Campbell long-term, if you are correct in your objection.
Second, as I said in my Team Explanation, the object of this exercise was to find a long-term solution to Edmonton’s chronic goalie problem. Citing Semyon Varlamov and Cam Talbot, who are signed for only one more year, as long-term solutions seems . . . short-sighted. And Talbot’s lack of term would seem to rule Kappo Kahkonen out as a trade target.
Third, if you accept the premise that Campbell has now shown his on-ice capability, I don’t see how you can consider Allen, Bernier, Driedger or Georgiev – all career backups so far – the solution to Edmonton’s need for a long-term starter. Now the criticism that it’s very dangerous to use a small sample of games as an indication of permanent future success is an absolutely valid one, and that is the obvious and admitted risk of signing Campbell to any contract.
Fourth, contending that any of your proposed trade targets would be necessarily cheaper than signing Campbell for free overlooks the fact that real assets would have to be spent to acquire them, and there would be a further cost to replace the assets so spent.
Finally, going from acquiring one goalie to a tandem seems to be changing the subject, inasmuch as it would be hard in some instances to create such a tandem or stay under your $7 million figure.
I readily concede without reservation that I could be wildly off in my estimation of what figure and term Campbell will command on the open market. I tried to hit an upper number to illustrate that signing him is not beyond Edmonton’s reach, but I’m persuaded by comments from reasonable fans like
@tkecanuck341 and
@aadoyle and
@MatthewsFan that he will get less than I have suggested here. Subconsciously, I’m sure that I was trying to dial a number which I knew to be above Toronto’s capability.