Jesse Granger

League ruled him eligible to play on December 1st.

He wasn't great out of the gates like he had some big saves because he's an athletic goalie who can skate and he made some big stops but his numbers were not good.

In fact his numbers were worse than Aiden Hill and Akira Schmidt when he first came in.

Then pretty quickly he suffers a serious lower body injury that held him out for months and

He was hurt actually when Tortorella got the job.

Aiden Hill started the first couple games.

Now, what I will say is Bruce Cassidy had a loyalty to Aiden Hill because they won a cup together.

When a goalie, and it wasn't just like Aiden Hill was on that team.

He was a big reason they won that cup.

He was third in Conn Smythe voting that year and deservedly so.

He was amazing.

So when a coach has a goalie, do something like that for him.

You look at Jordan Bennington in the blues, like they believe in him.

Coaches are going to stick with the guy who won the cup.

So would Bruce Cassidy have gone to Carter Hart?

I don't know.

I think there's a chance he would have because Hill was not having his best season.

But then you bring in a coach in Tortorella who has the opposite bias.

He coached Carter Hart.

in Philadelphia, and he had no problems.