Quoting: kous
What I am saying is that the you don't get the value difference for what you are paying a $3M-$4M goaltender and that of a $10M goalie. You are better to get a cheaper option in net and spend that cap on the rest of your team.
Carey Price is the best goalie in the world and can win you games on his own but at $10M he is not going to bring a cup to MTL
I agree, and as I said previously, you need to have the system in place to support a $3-4M goalie.
Toronto does not have that, hell, most teams don't have that... so they have to overpay to bring in goalies of a certain quality, and that overpayment comes in the range of the $5M plus goalies you see around the league.
Chicago was stacked, and they could afford to roll through Huet, Khabibulin, Niemi, Crawford, Darling and so on... but now they cannot, their system is barren, and will likely have to overpay to get a goalie to go there, because who will go to a team with no real future for less money? (just like Toronto, a goalie would have to knowingly go to a team relying on 20 year old defenseman with limited to no NHL experience.... I'd want to be payed more for that)