New Jersey's Next Goalie

I’d stay away from Price. He may be talented and all, but from Halak taking his starting job this season, it just shows Price isn’t the hardest working goalie out there.

Carey Price will probably go somewhere this offseason where he has a chance of starting. I’d highly doubt he’ll want to be a backup for 2+ years to maybe be the goalie here. Also I hate Price and I think he’s an average goalie.

I don’t know anything about Frazee because I’ve never seen him play a game. I don’t think the job would be his automatically but he is the only goalie prospect we have. Getting another young goalie this offseason would probably be a good idea.

Interestingly, Gabe at Behind the Net makes a case that it should be Halak that is traded. He’d get more value in a deal for Montreal, and Price’s save percentage at even strength isn’t that much worse than Halak’s was in this past season – he’d give them a consistently good performance.

Given this playoff run, Halak definitely won’t get moved and if I were the Montreal GM, I wouldn’t move Halak either. I also wouldn’t give Price to a team in my own conference if I could help it, either (need a goalie, Dallas?).

Do I think the Devils need to go after Price or some other goaltender to “groom?” I don’t think so. I’m not sure who will be on the market in 2012, but rather than throwing a relatively inexperienced goaltender into the giant pads Brodeur may leave behind after 2012, I’d prefer a veteran signing as a stop-gap. Someone who everyone will initially know right off the bat what he can do and that he’s not Martin Brodeur.

Wow… this thread got me thinking ahead to 2012 when Brodeur is likely to retire, and that is not a pretty thought at all. The guy that the team was built around for 15 years…….. sigh

Anywho, do I think Price is a potentially-great goalie? Yes, for shizzle. Do I like his attitude off the ice, with the partying and all? Hell no. And just for that, I don’t think he’d be a good fit with the Devils. The organization has always demanded maturity and responsibility from everyone involved, top to bottom.

The replacement? Who knows. In Lou We Trust.

Carey Price, huh?

Here are two goalie’s stats, playing in front of the same Montreal team. I’ll let you guess which one is Price.

GP GS W L OT SA ….GA GAA Sv ….Sv% SO G A PIM TOI
45 43 26 13 5 1386 105 2.40 1281 0.924 5 ..0 0 0 ….2,629:56
41 39 13 20 5 1244 109 2.77 1135 0.912 0 ..0 1 8 ….2,358:21

Give Danis a small raise and let him start 10 games. No reason to spend $2M on Price, for someone who won half as many games as his counterpart in just a few less starts.

Chelios isn’t a Goaltender. Chelios isn’t even GOOD at his level now. Your really that in love with with Marty? I mean we all should be but c’mon you want him in goal at the ages of 40-45?! What good does that leave us with? I doubt Marty will continue to put 45+ wins in the next 2 years or if he does were in trouble for the playoffs again…. Ask the Rangers? Really? They always make those moves either on July 1st or at the deadline. They think they made their team better and sure as hell WE did when they got all those players. You don’t know. Obviously Redden was terrible but Gomez didn’t have an “Elias or Gionta” he had no one. Drury is getting overpaid but when he hit the market he was a great player. You can’t deny that. He deserved some of that money but it just didn’t work out. He’s still efective on the PK and the sometimes the PP. Good on faceoffs too. And as for Thomas… You think the Bruins management knew Thomas would faulter in the season. He just won the VEZINA Trophy!!! I say draft Conz.

I’ll bet you anything Brodeur signs a 2-year deal after 2012 with NJ. I get the sense he’s playing into his 40s just like Hasek.

If the Devils win the Cup in the next 2 years, I could easily see Marty retiring when his contract is up. I mean, what else does he have to prove? Every major goalie record he doesn’t have is pretty much unreachable (minus playoff shutouts..he needs 1 more). If they fail to win one in the next 2 years, he will probably sign 1 year deals after for a couple years, and knowing Marty, he’ll take another pay cut so he can get the best possible team in front of him to win the Cup (probably around 3.5mil/yr).

I don’t have a problem with getting a goalie now and molding him for when Marty eventually leaves, but the Devils don’t have the cap room for it. As much as everyone was playing GM and signing some big names (including myself), I feel Lou is going to be bringing up a good amount of youth next season, some need to be resigned (Pelley, Fraser, Eckford, Sestito). Martin or another good defender is getting (re)signed, and probably a center that half the fans may not agree with. I understand bringing up youth would save some money, but with 16m in cap space and only 14* NHL contracts, is there room for a 2-3 mil/yr goalie? I think not.

As of now for the 2011-2012 season per CapGeek, the Devils have 8 roster players with a 30mil payroll (including Marty 5.2m, Rolston, 5m, White 3m, Salvador 2.9m all on their last years of their contracts). For any contracts signed this year that aren’t 1yr deals and Parise getting signed to a monster contract, I just don’t see the room for a quality goalie at a reasonable price this year, when there are other positions at need (goalie is probably the least).

• - I’m counting Davison’s contract and not Zharkov’s or PL3.

And I doubt behind Marty Brodeur he would whine. He knows he will be the starter once he retires. Wow I’m saying Price will be a Devil. But who knows?

Isn’t that what matters most?

You can really say that they were good or bad goals. But he could be a LITTLE bit better. I mean he wasn’t bad in the playoffs but if he made that one more save it could changed the series.. You can think what you want but thats my view. And we all know Marty probably won’t decline that much in 2 years…

Yeah I know the offense sucked but when offense fails I guess you rely on the goaltender, losing in 5 games tells me some of it (not a lot) is Marty’s fault….

Were giving up a hell of a lot =.. You think the Kovy trade was a lot. Think of Frazee, top AHL defenseman, an experienced forward, and a draft pick.

Either Campbell, Pickard, or even Conz. Who would take a goalie in the first round? Or multiple goalies.

i think frazie is going to be a big surprise and be much better then anyone expects.i kinnda think hes going to turn out simular to mike richter.i hope to see him in a few nhl games this year.