Rejoint: juill. 2021
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Varlamov seemed like a good option to me. Same AAV that Campbell signed for but only a 1-year commitment. The Leafs spent almost as much cap hit on Murray. Varlamov lost the #1 spot to Sorokin, so you'd think the Islanders wouldn't want to pay $5M for a backup on an expiring contract, but he still played well enough to be a #1. I'm really surprised they didn't trade him. Maybe they tried, and maybe the Leafs tried to get him, but they couldn't agree on a price.
I hope I'm wrong about Samsonov, but whenever I think about a goalie who had a great rookie year and couldn't follow it up, Andrew Raycroft always comes to mind. At least they didn't trade a future star who's going to knock them out of the playoffs a couple of times for Samsonov. It was a pretty low risk acquisition.