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Thomas Townsend
Columbus Blue Jackets
Location: Westerville, OH
Joined: 04.25.2019

May 13 @ 10:55 AM ET
Thomas Townsend: Bob For Sale
Reveen.
Edmonton Oilers
Location: BC
Joined: 09.05.2016

May 13 @ 11:02 AM ET
Let him walk... his next contract is going to be toxic.
prock
Vegas Golden Knights
Location: Bobby Ryan + 1st rounder for Clarkson, ON
Joined: 08.30.2007

May 13 @ 11:22 AM ET
Let him walk... his next contract is going to be toxic.
- Reveen.




possibly, but not because of his abilities (he's an elite goalie), but because I just don't believe paying franchise level salaries for a goalie is the right thing to do in today's NHL. I don't think I'd go over $6M or $7M. if someone pays him $8M or more, I'd agree with you.
Harambe
Columbus Blue Jackets
Location: Cincinatti Zoo - Gorilla Enclosure, OH
Joined: 07.28.2016

May 13 @ 12:15 PM ET
Thomas Townsend: Bob For Sale
- Thomas Townsend

Beautiful views of the only natural flowing diarrhea river in the United States
Alexzanki
Columbus Blue Jackets
Location: Montreal, QC
Joined: 06.03.2008

May 13 @ 12:31 PM ET
Let him walk... his next contract is going to be toxic.
- Reveen.

let them party in Miami , see how long that lasts
ThatDarnCat
Location: In the control group
Joined: 04.01.2010

May 13 @ 1:10 PM ET
They can always lie on the beach and tell others how they got to the second round that one year.

Chunk
Chicago Blackhawks
Location: Why did I move back here again?, IL
Joined: 11.06.2015

May 13 @ 2:38 PM ET
Regarding the second point under "keep him", In the recent past you've had:


Annti Niemi
Corey Crawford
Matt Murray
Jonathan Quick
Cam Ward (and probably a few others that I haven't bothered to look up)

All won a Stanley Cup without much (if any) notable prior success. I completely understand that it would be better to have a more "proven" netminder that you are comfortable with, but there are a number of factors that go into winning in the playoffs. Not to mention the fact that you don't really know what some of the guys in your system can do until they actually get to the show.
birdie03
Columbus Blue Jackets
Joined: 07.01.2011

May 13 @ 3:44 PM ET
Regarding the second point under "keep him", In the recent past you've had:


Annti Niemi
Corey Crawford
Matt Murray
Jonathan Quick
Cam Ward (and probably a few others that I haven't bothered to look up)

All won a Stanley Cup without much (if any) notable prior success. I completely understand that it would be better to have a more "proven" netminder that you are comfortable with, but there are a number of factors that go into winning in the playoffs. Not to mention the fact that you don't really know what some of the guys in your system can do until they actually get to the show.

- Chunk


I agree. The only team left in the playoffs that have what is considered an elite goalie is Boston (Rask) - and he's been on fire these playoffs.
The other teams have good goalies - Blues have a rookie. So a Vezina trophy goalie doesn't guarantee anything, especially in the playoffs.

I guess we'll find out next season how we do with fairly inexperience goalies.
Torfan74
Toronto Maple Leafs
Location: ON
Joined: 05.13.2019

May 13 @ 4:40 PM ET
I could see Calgary and SanJose being interested if the price was right, but there is no way Toronto would have been interested in Bobrovsky. Anderson was a top ten goalie, maybe top 7.
Cptmjl
New York Islanders
Joined: 11.05.2011

May 13 @ 7:45 PM ET
The Argument For Letting Him Walk

I think the most glaring, important, argument for letting him walk is Columbus really not having a choice in the matter😂
Glak18
Philadelphia Flyers
Location: "It's pretty big loogie on my face, so I was pretty psssted".", PA
Joined: 06.26.2007

May 14 @ 8:04 AM ET
3.2 million for that? I get it's a condo, but holy crap are the rooms small. Don't get me started on the bathrooms, the toilet looks like you could put your feet on the wall while sitting down. The price is obviously jacked up 200% because of location, but location in Columbus just means you don't have a dumpster outside your window.
Sven22
Detroit Red Wings
Location: Grand Rapids, MI
Joined: 12.24.2007

May 14 @ 10:56 AM ET
goalies usually age well


This is a common misconception, which is perpetuated in part because the stats of any one particualar goalie tend to bounce around from year to year.

In fact, by the time most goalies gain the full confidence of their teams and break into the NHL, they're quite likely to already be as good as they're ever going to be (or maybe even past their absolute peak). While again this can vary on an individual basis depending on luck, coaching, situation, etc., as a group goalies statistically decline consistently year after year beginning already in their early 20s.

https://hockey-graphs.com...-at-a-goalie-aging-curve/

https://ingoalmag.com/ana...enders-aging-and-the-nhl/

This last season, there were only 6 goalies in the NHL at least 35 years of age who played at least 30 games. Of those goalies (Luongo 39, Anderson 37, Lundqvist 36, Rinne 36, Smith 36, McElhinney 35), only Rinne and McElhinney had save percentages higher than league average (and McElhinney only barely).

I would in fact argue that Rinne was the only NHL goalie above age 33 (Greiss) who had what I would consider to be a genuinely good season, although Fleury (34) might have skirted the boundary between "good" and "above average."

Now granted every goalie is different and sometimes you do get lucky. Roy was still all-world when he retired at 37. Luongo was great (in admittedly a small sample size of work) last year at age 38. Hasek had his last great season at 40 and was still above average at 42.

But I wouldn't exactly count on Bob to maintain an elite standard of playing ability for 8 more years. He would definitely have to beat the odds.