Billy739
Joined: Dec. 2017
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i'm a big Allen Fan , he's the only NB born players in the NHL with PHI having the other one a Prospect Myers as well as Couturier raised and living in NB where his father is Junior hockey in Bathurst.
the only reason i'd want allen is to flip him to PHI as our Goalie depth is fine with Niemi helping Lindgren Start. we got 2 of the top NCAA Goalies in Hawkey and Primeau with 2 long term projects in Fucale and Mcniven of which one has to go come summer as they are hurting eachothers development . Adding a goalie let alone 2 makes no sense unless we collapse our entire goalie system which is the only productive thing we have.
Case and point last year 3 of Price's Backups/prospects beneath him in MTL beat him in a variety of NHL Goalie Rankings including Shutouts .
Budaj,Condon and Dubnyk all from MTL's system. Lindgren's stats only get better at each level he hits and the AHL only having 1 D regular in Lernout over 2 years hurt but still if you look at the game by game when he won he didnt let much by him but when they lost it was like 3-0, 4-1 or 5-0 as an injured MTL took what few talented players we had infront of him and left him with a team most wouldnt skate in the ECHL. that being said this year Timmons in year one on the job has rebooted out AHL system as much as possible with the limited re-sources we got , with MB's ear as #2 guy now he got depth guys like Reilly ,Valiev , Rychel ,Cracknell,and has signed Verbeek UFA ,Bitten ,Pezetta and Evans from or drafted prospects for Laval next year if not MTL if they have a good camp
my point is simple if MTL wipes the slate clean on the goaltending machine that is MTL Molson might as well sell because the fans will 100% without a shadow of a doubt burn his brewery to the ground when Price wins the cup in STL and we miss the playoffs with a tandem STL couldnt succeed with