Multiple shifts yes, but Miller, Horvat can take 5 minutes hard assed skating when they know it's over.
Sutter is more of a grinder nowadays and shouldn't come in on OT
And there are a lot of players better than him now. Petey, B o.. then Miller Virtanen Boeser, Hughes, etc is much better options. .
In OT it's no problem to go with 2 maybe three lines. It's only 5 minutes.
I think it's an easy decision.
Get Marky for 7x5(6) and protect Demko in the draft. If we then loose Marky the 7 milion in cap can be used to solve what is missing.
So it's a win win situation.
Either we have one of the best goalies or 7 million to spend.
You pay Marky 6 mill to get his best years. You can write the contract as 8 8 8 6 4 2 if you.like. That is 2 mill for Marky as 36.
If you value Marky for 4 years then the team has 4 years to solve the situation.
Do you really think Benning can't find a decent goalie if Demko is gone?
As for now Demko is a quality starter. What happens if he doesn't be more than a quality starter?
When Marky is on he is a monster.
If Demko had shown anything like that I could agree but he hasn't in the games I've seen him in.
With the defense marky had in front of him the last seasons and still had over 0,91 is amazing. Just look at the game where he let in 6 goals and Demko stepped in. The 2 goals before Demko came in were a post hit that hit Marky in the back and the other was a shielded shot Marky couldn't see.
But I'm more interested wich goalies you think are better than Marky on that list.
You lost me completely when you want to pay 4 mill for a goalie that are 35 years old now... Than you can pay Marky 6 mill for 6 year and get a much better outcome.
Why blame losing skids on the goalie?
I've seen a lot of over reaction against the goalies if they let in a lot of goals. But people don't look at the goals and see if it was even possible to save them.
If you make a proper analyze of the losing skid and can put the blame on the goalie afterwards I would be very surprised.
It was a radio broadcast, or pod or whatever it's called nowadays.. They talked about advanced shot stats and the shots Marky saved put him in or close to top 5. I'm sorry I can't remember where I listened to it.