Vegan Knight
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- Feb 16, 2018
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What are we going to do about Thompson?
I'm not one of those who think he can come in and be a starter right now, or even be relied on to be the backup with no NHL history behind him but if he doesn't get a certain amount of games (and I don't think he will) he will be a UFA at seasons end.
We have Lehner and Brossoit in the NHL and Saville should join Patera and Ferguson in the AHL after this season, we just drafted Lindbom further down the pipeline and the goalie carousel usually brings new starters and backups available in cheap trades or decent UFA deals most years.
So we can afford to lose him, I'm not saying we can't. But he has shown some promise, shouldn't he get 5-10 NHL games this season so we can at least see what we may have here?
I'm not one of those who think he can come in and be a starter right now, or even be relied on to be the backup with no NHL history behind him but if he doesn't get a certain amount of games (and I don't think he will) he will be a UFA at seasons end.
We have Lehner and Brossoit in the NHL and Saville should join Patera and Ferguson in the AHL after this season, we just drafted Lindbom further down the pipeline and the goalie carousel usually brings new starters and backups available in cheap trades or decent UFA deals most years.
So we can afford to lose him, I'm not saying we can't. But he has shown some promise, shouldn't he get 5-10 NHL games this season so we can at least see what we may have here?