Steve Valliquette

And they probably, with their style of play, needed...

this level of, you know, help me out here, guys.

I don't want to be too hard on them because I know I'm just going to get ripped for saying it, but it was pretty light getting to the final.

That's all.

No doubt.

That's fair.

That's fair.

Okay, just bring me up to speed with, are they planning on bringing him in or are they going to waive him?

It's not clear.

Okay.

All right, so the first thing that I would say is that I've been looking hard into this for a while because...

Choosing who you're going to rehabilitate for a goalie that's coming off of a down year, I think a lot of it is age-dependent if they are minus 15 expected goals against or worse.

So if you're minus 15, that means you allowed 15 more goals than a league average goalie, but you could be a named guy.

This year, Bobrovsky was a minus 22, and that may surprise a lot of people, but he was that bad this year in Florida's net.

Now, I'll read to you what I was able to collaborate with some of the guys in the company on in the last couple of weeks.

So we call this the minus 15 threshold, and this fits Sam Arison because he was a minus 15 goalie last year for Philadelphia in expected goals.

Young goalies under 27 who fall below expectations can recover quickly, often with one season.

For this group, a poor season is often just volatility.

It's not decline.

So if you're a young guy and you have a minus 15 coming off of strong seasons, you're