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And to pick Scrivens over Reimer says a lot about how much you know about goaltending too ...

I don't mind getting an elite goalie like Luongo, but anything short of that, we're better off sticking with what we have in Reimer / Luongo. When both are healthy, goaltending has not been a problem in Toronto this season.
 
Reimer is not better than Luongo.
But the contract Luongo carries is way to much for someone that could crash within the next 2-3 years.
Reimer handes the puck like a grenade and lately, he usually lets in a bad goal a game.
I get the same feeling as when the leafs had the Bester/Wregget combo. You could see there was talent but both seemed to be a little low mentally
JMHO
 
Reimer's only looked bad after he's missed significant time due to injury.

These are his SV% in March ...

Mar 21 @ BUF OTL 4-5 1 65 0 0 1 0 4 3.69 36 32 .889 0
Mar 20 TAM W 4-2 1 60 1 0 0 0 2 2.00 28 26 .929 0
Mar 12 @ WPG L 2-5 1 51 0 1 0 0 4 4.68 28 24 .857 0
Mar 9 PIT OTL 4-5 1 65 0 0 1 0 4 3.69 41 37 .902 0
Mar 6 OTT W 5-4 1 60 1 0 0 0 4 4.00 43 39 .907 0
Mar 4 NJD W 4-2 1 60 1 0 0 0 2 2.00 30 28 .933 0

Instead of being 'just bad', he's had a lot of up's and down's ... he's had 2 excellent games, 1 so-so game, and 3 really bad games.

And inconsistency is exactly what you expect from someone who's missed times.

What we should do is work on Reimer's conditioning so he hopefully doesn't get another major injury next season.
 
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Yeah, on the face of it, Luongo would of course be a great upgrade over Reimer and Scrivens.

However, I want no part of that contract and I want no part of Gillis's ridiculous demands. The goaltending we've gotten thus far has been fine as well.
 
If the Leafs really want a "vet" goalie, there will be a bunch as UFA's -- Ellis, Backstrom, Emery, Howard, M Smith, Nabakov etc...

There's no need to take on that Luongo contract and deal assets for him.

Disagree with all this goalie talk. The Leafs have got top 10ish goaltending from a couple good, young, cheap goalies. That's a perfect situation.
 
PlayerToBeNamedLater said:
If the Leafs really want a "vet" goalie, there will be a bunch as UFA's -- Ellis, Backstrom, Emery, Howard, M Smith, Nabakov etc...

There's no need to take on that Luongo contract and deal assets for him.

Disagree with all this goalie talk. The Leafs have got top 10ish goaltending from a couple good, young, cheap goalies. That's a perfect situation.
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You know you're 17th in GAA right now?
 
Yep.

Go with the young and cheap goalies and use the savings to build up a better team in front of them. And as has been shown, quality goalies are not that difficult to find in the UFA market.
 
Our goaltending has been a strength this year. picking up some struggling vet goalie just because our guys struggle occasionally is a step backwards.
 
Yeah, it's not like we're putting Toskala and Raycroft out there.

They've done an admirable job and are still on the upswing. We just have to weather the frustrations until they've had enough games under their belts to be able to say that we know what we have.

Regarding last night, I don't blame Reimer on any of the regulation goals. But the one he gave up on the shootout when we were poised to win was HORRIBLE. For me, it was the SO equivalent of Toskala's regulation goal from the other end of the ice.
 
Whatever. If your goalie goes six rounds in the shootout and only gives up two goals, you should win the stupid skills competition. The goat horns go on the five Leaf shooters that couldn't beat Miller.
 
I don't know about that. When your team puts you in a position to win, with you needing to make one last save, you need to come up big, just like Miller did over and over when it was do or die for him.

It wasn't even so much that he let in the goal, it was how he let it in. It should've been in his glove, but he ****ed up and it ticked off of it and over and in.
 
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I don't know about that. When your team puts you in a position to win, with you needing to make one last save, you need to come up big, just like Miller did over and over when it was do or die for him.

It wasn't even so much that he let in the goal, it was how he let it in. It should've been in his glove, but he ****ed up and it ticked off of it and over and in.
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Yeah, you'd like to see him shut the door there, but in the end, it wasn't a horrible goal and he did give us a chance to win. JVR, Kessel and Grabbo also all could have got us the shootout win just by scoring, so it hardly all falls on Reimer.

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Bring back the tie! 10 minute OT then tie. Enough already.
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100% agreed. You could even make it 10 minutes of four-on-four. I guarantee it'll be pretty rare to get through that 10 minutes without a goal being scored.

And hey, if two teams go through 60 minutes of play, plus 10 minutes of sudden death four-on-four and still come out of it with the same number of goals? It should be a tie.
 
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It's always non-Leaf fans telling the people that watch the Leafs night in and night out what they need and they're usually wrong.
 
Although struggling, I think Derek Roy would be a good acquisition for this team if we can get him for cheap.
 
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