Stephen Valiquette
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The goalies haven't responded yet.
One of those two guys has to step up.
Or maybe they can go to Murashev, who's a very good goalie that's played for them at parts of the season as well as in Wilkes-Barre, Scranton.
See, my theory is the other way.
It's don't play the guy that everybody expects you to play because of pedigree and tenure.
Think about Grubauer starting over Holpe when Washington won.
It pisses Holpe off.
He's a competitor.
If you know Braden Holpe, the guy wants to be in the net.
And if you have a guy like that that wants the net,
it's okay to piss him off for a couple games.
Because guess what?
If Grubauer that year gets off to a hot start for two, three games, it just prolongs the inevitable.
We're going to go to you, Holtby, but it's going to be a little bit here.
And you saw it with Pittsburgh during the years where it was Marc-Andre Fleury and Murray.
There's enough runway there for, I think, you to actually start the guy that everybody โ
thinks that you shouldn't because when he fails the other guy that should have possibly started comes in with a cape on but it's obviously it's got to be you know something that you're seriously thinking through because in Holpe's case in 2018 he really needed a little bit more time to prepare for the playoffs he got an extra week and a half of reps when he went in he took off
But that can work for you and to your advantage if you have the right approach and you communicate it to the guy.
But if you have a goalie that gets really pissed off and plays better pissed off, I think you always have to use that lever.
I'd be really worried if I was Carolina right now.