Let’s trade for Kent Johnson already 😡
- mr.sir

Why is Columbus trading him after signing him for 3 x $1.8m a month ago?

Weird odds. The Jack Adams favours poopty teams not being poopty randomly and explaining it on the new coach.
- AdamFrench

What are the odds for Martin St-Louis? I might place a little 2$ on him!

new blog everyone

*places a $10 bet on whatever sad sack is coaching the Ducks*
- AdamFrench

That's the kind of bet that when it pays off it collapses the global economy.

6 years with the leafs, doesnt ever get a sniff, then he leaves the leafs and now he's the fav to win.

Weird.
- Fakepartofme

Is it really though? Lots of Leaf hate out there......lol

"Plenty"?
In the past 20 years, it looks like 4 goalies have won the Conn smythe.
I think only Cam ward was a rookie.

I believe since the late 70's only 5 rookie goalies won the cup: Roy, Bennington, Murray, hextall, ward.

Not a huge list, but Askarov doesnt have to lead his team to cup victory in his first year in order to have a successful year IMO.
Ah well.
The leafs have injury woll, Stolarz, Murray, Hildeby...hopefully one of them turn out to be our consistent #1.
- Fakepartofme

Semantics.

I never said a "huge list" - I said plenty, of which 5 seems to fit adequately.

Askarov does not need to lead SJS to a Cup victory, but that wasn't my larger point: rookie goaltenders can be thrown into the fire and can win with contenders. In some cases, they've won a Cup and even Conn Smythes.

No one knows the future but Askarov is looking very, very promising. He's absolutely the top goaltending prospect in the league and, while he has his work cut out for him on an epically bad Sharks squad, I suspect he'll be pretty great.