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by Paul on 03/19/10 at 12:39 PM ET
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from Scott Burnside of ESPN,
Starter Michael Leighton left Tuesday’s game in Nashville with a high-ankle sprain, and the club announced late Thursday afternoon that he is gone for eight to 10 weeks.
Now, what looked to be a significant risk—turning over the Flyers’ netminding chores to an untested journeyman like Leighton—has quickly evolved into what appears to be a monstrous blunder.
It is true Holmgren did take a run at Florida Panthers netminder Tomas Vokoun at the March 3 trade deadline but backed off when the cost was going to include sniper Jeff Carter.
Fair enough.
But when Plan A failed, what happened to Plan B or even Plan C? In Philadelphia, where goaltending isn’t a storyline but a recurring nightmare, we are talking Plan Z here.
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Look at the penguins; they extend 5 million a year for Fleury. Sure it would be nice to have another player like a Carter on their team to score goals, but then they would have guys like Leighton or Boucher in goal. Those guys do not win championships.
Chris Osgood has the same number of Finals appearances and Cup wins as Fleury in the last two seasons and he costs the Wings $1.4M a year.
Posted by Garth on 03/19/10 at 03:23 PM ET
Chris Osgood has the same number of Finals appearances and Cup wins as Fleury in the last two seasons and he costs the Wings $1.4M a year.
Posted by Garth on 03/19/10 at 04:23 PM ET
True, but the Wings blueline > the Pens blueline.
Posted by Primis on 03/19/10 at 04:30 PM ET
Still…the osgood to fleury reference shouldn’t be made. Osgood has maybe 2-3 years left while Fleury likely has at least 10 years barring no significant injury. A better reference would be Craig Anderson’s contract. Of course very few teams were unwilling to extend Anderson starting goaltender money…he was a plug backup who played around 30 games last years and did well but not well regarded as a starting goaltender. The Avs were willing to take that gamble and it paid dividends big time but they could’ve gone for the other available pseudo-starter Scott Clemmensen (also had good numbers when brodeur got hurt) and we all know he’s not anywhere near being a starting goaltender.
I’m just worried that if Detroit doesn’t make the playoffs they’ll hang it on Jimmy Howard…which would be dumb because he’s been excellent. They hung playoff losses on Legace and it soured his career. Let’s face it…when Detroit’s defensive buy in is 100% they could go far in the playoffs with a guy like Joey MacDonald in net. Hmmm…
Posted by stoneman from vegas on 03/20/10 at 12:24 AM ET
god i hate red wings fans
Posted by J.Truant on 03/20/10 at 02:46 AM ET
Perhaps a call to Boston this offseason inquiring about the price for Tim Thomas would be sensible for Philadelphia. That exchange could benefit both teams in terms of matching strength and weaknesses, which probably means that it won’t happen.
Posted by Moq from Denmark on 03/20/10 at 11:12 AM ET
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its pretty simple… when you have all your money tied up on forwards and d-men, it leaves you with no money for a goalie.
First of all, no one is going to take briere off their hands. Secondly they don’t want to give up Richards, Pronger, Carter, Gagne, hartnell, or Timonen. If you take those players, including Briere their cap hit is 40 million.
40 million on 5 forwards and 2 d-men. That leaves about 20 million for 4-5 more d-men, 7-8 forwards and 2 goalies. What kind of goalie was Philly expecting to get.
Look at the penguins; they extend 5 million a year for Fleury. Sure it would be nice to have another player like a Carter on their team to score goals, but then they would have guys like Leighton or Boucher in goal. Those guys do not win championships.
Posted by gretzky_to_lemieux on 03/19/10 at 02:30 PM ET