To our dumbass fans. Goalies all time in the playoffs.

Grow a brain and stop complaining about what Shesterkin gets paid.

 

I noticed Stepan didn’t have a pair of balls to respond to this post.

 

You win! Igor is worth every penny he gets paid. Best goalie ever. God forbid he gets criticized.

 

Might as well give him 20 million. If you had actually any Brains left in your stupid little head of yours. I said not to build around the goalies like the rangers have done over 4o years now. I don’t expect you to get it though

 

Isn’t another conclusion here that you don’t necessarily need the most expensive goalie leading the world in goals saved against expected in order to win a cup? I count 4 goalies here that won cups, all of which may have prevented less goals but were on cheaper contracts and therefore played on teams that had more cap space to spend on skaters. Those teams won. We didn’t.

That’s not a knock on Igor or Henrik, or me blaming them for losses. Just a fact based on this table.

 

With the cap going up every year now at least he's locked in at that $$$, which will make the value even better.

 

I guess I misspoke to the extent that Igor’s extension hadn’t kicked in yet as he complied the goals saved x expected reflected above. But will be interesting to see how it plays out with the new cap hit and what kind of team we can build around him.

 

He’s the last problem on this team.

 

Exactly. He is not the problem but the contract $ tied up with him is. Paying that kind of money has an impact on the players you can sign (either homegrown or FAs). There are few other goalies if any that I would want on the Rangers at the end of the day. I just hate they had to pay him as much as they did.

 

This is the key. Absolutely 100% you need your goalie playing well and making key saves to win the Cup, you cannot have a scrub in goal and win. But that doesn't mean you need the highest paid goalie to win a Cup; in fact it is the exact opposite based on teams that have won the Cup. Outside of Bob last season, the teams that have won have not had huge cap hit goalies. I think having your goalie in the sweet spot of $6M to $8M per is the best bet.

No one is saying Igor is a problem for the Rangers, far from it. His cap hit is a problem though, and to me not only is it not necessary, but I also think it is a determent for building a complete team. We'll see if the Rangers can buck the trend of teams not winning with huge cap hit goalies.