https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/5784270/2024/09/21/canucks-sign-kevin-lankinen-training-camp/
Autrefois, les équipes évitaient à tout prix d’avoir trois gardiens de but puisqu’il n’y avait que deux filets. Mais avec l’accent mis sur le repos des gardiens, cela semble changer. Les Red Wings, les Sabres, les Leafs et les Hurricanes l’ont tous fait la saison dernière. Les Canucks l’ont fait en séries éliminatoires.
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stickinrink
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My fantasy team is in shambles!
I don’t really get it. Once demko returns why not send silovs down? He’s waivers exempt and they can recall him at anytime if needed.
You take a look at depth charts around the NHL and it’s clear there are other teams that appear to be planning to carry three goalies.
Buffalo: Ukko-Pekka Luukkonen, James Reimer, Devon Levi
Carolina: Pyotr Kochetkov, Frederik Andersen, Spencer Martin
Detroit: Cam Talbot, Ville Husso, Alex Lyon
Los Angeles: Darcy Kuemper, David Rittich, Pheonix Copley
San Jose: Yaroslav Askarov, Mackenzie Blackwood, Vitek Vanecek
Toronto: Joseph Woll, Anthony Stolarz, Matt Murray
Winnipeg: Connor Hellebuyck, Kaapo Kahkonen, Eric Comrie
If Vancouver did carry 3 goalies, I imagine it would be Demko-Lankinen-Patera.
And then you have Arty/Tolopilo sharing duties in Abbotsford.
Goalies are going to be the new pitchers with stringent maximum saves per week counts or something. It’s already trending that way.
Having a goalie split like 45/25/12 over 3 goalies on every team so you have a fresh starter for playoffs
I think that’s what they’ll do, especially as the season goes on. It really all depends on how many call ups they have as the year goes on and also they’ll probably want to accrue some cap space as well. They’ll find a good balance
This could be the new normal huh? Very interesting. Goalies could now make a career as a backup no. 2 goalie.
Did the Canucks really have three goalies in the playoffs?
I *think* it was on Canucks Conversation where they were talking about this; with the league appearing to move in this direction it might be a good idea to make some sort of change to the roster limit/emergency call-up rules/etc. to make it more feasible for teams to carry 3 goalies.
Well they won’t be able to ride demko like they have in the past (which was a mistake anyways), and he’ll likely have constant “maintenance” or “rest” days for the remainder of his career. We will have to do whatever we can to save him for the playoffs.
Carry 4! 2 for home 2 tandem for away
Too bad the ‘ole stand up Kirk Mclean goaltending style punctuated with the diving two pad stack isn’t viable any more to at least keep the knees healthy. Maybe goalies should do a hybrid where two periods you stand up and in the 3rd you maximize efficiency with the butterfly style /j.
I’m not against this if it works out when we inevitably lose our goalie.
Cause Demko is fragile and our backup will get tired
meh, the fact that we need to even be so careful with Demko probably means it’s time to move on from him. Yes he can be elite when he’s healthy but it’s much better to have a team that is used to playing in front of a certain goalie than to have the team scramble to readjust when Demko ends up getting injured again. There will always be good goalies on the market, heck we got Ryan Miller that time and he was healthy and was really good for us. Miller played 76 games in one season with buffalo, that’s insane, yet Demko can’t even handle 50ish.