Logical Progression wrote:
Pokecheque wrote:
And hey, they got a really good backup in net to mitigate those inevitable Ben Bishop injuries.
Agree on Heiskanen but Khudobin? Suppose he's pretty good as a career backup, but dude's 32, not played a tonne of NHL and wouldn't imagine to be a solid option over long stretches.
I dunno, he was even being eyed as a starter not too long ago by Carolina (go figure), managed to suffer some major injuries that year and I guess that was that, but as far as their options went I think about the only one that may have been better would've been Carter Hutton (and they weren't gonna get him). He filled in quite well for Rask when Tuukka was suckking to start the year.
I'm not saying they haven't made some serious errors (they have, especially last offseason) but they either needed to do this or deal him and pull the plug. They have way too much invested to do that.
BTW, the way they announced this signing on Twitter was nothing short of awesome.
https://twitter.com/DallasStars/status/ ... 0858136576