Modifié 3 oct. 2022 à 14 h 55
Quoting: C21
You don't need to love the tandem., it's temporary. The team has 14M in dead cap so becoming a legitimate threat for the cup is unlikely and stupid to try to pay a bunch of assets for
Fleury won a Vezina 2 years ago and Gus had Sens fans creaming themselves over his potential around the same time. The tendies are fine, they're not gonna carry the team and they're not gonna drag the team down. Like I said, they're fine
Dumba isn't a cap dump, especially at 50% retained
^This^
Moreover, Gustavsson is literally only 24 years old. That is waaaaaaay too early to be ditching a young goaltender whose has shown flashes of promise of being a solid NHL player in the past for parts of the last two seasons.
Ottawa could afford to part with him because they already had a legitimate starting goaltender in Forsberg and they needed a legit veteran starter to tandem him with so they traded for Cam.
Besides, Gustavsson's numbers last year need to be taken with a grain of salt. As he was playing behind a bad Ottawa team, and a even worse defense.
He has everything he needs to be better this year.
1) A better team and especially a better defense in front of him.
2) A chance to learn from and hone his craft while backing up and playing under MAF, a HOF Goaltender, for an entire season.
That can only pay dividends later.
3) A fresh start in a new city, where he isn't going to be counted on to be *the guy* but will still have an increased opportunity for playing time and chances to grow.
4) While it's early yet, and it's only been in the pre-season, so far he's looked really good. Good enough that he should be given the opportunity to backstop Fluery this year.
If the Fluery/Gustavsson tandem isn't working by the deadline and we're close enough to continue the push for something better. Then yeah, fine. Upgrade, and trade for something better if we can.
But right now, there's
zero reason to make that trade.