Harding avoids arby...trade coming?

[GoalieGuild]

So he signs a one-year, $1.1 million deal.

Now we just wait to see who wants to bring him in as another backup HAHA.

The only team I can seriously think of is San Jose. Right now they don't have anyone backing up Nabokov and considering how many other teams have brought in veteran backups instead of giving their stud AHL prospect a chance to move up, I wouldn't be surprised to see Harding go to the Sharks.

Let's see .... AHL prospects who got screwed over:

CURRY (via Johnson)
LALANDE/LACOSTA (Garon)
BACHMAN (Auld)
*HELENIUS (Niittymaki)
MONTOYA (LaBarbera)
*SCHNEIDER (Raycroft)
WEIMAN (Anderson)
PLANTE (Clemmensen)
FRAZEE (Danis)
ISLANDERS PROSPECTS (Everyone)
MUNROE (Boucher)
BISHOP (Conklin)
POGGE (Gustavsson)

So as you can see, the only team left with an "unknown" backup is San Jose. A few others could be considered up for grabs too, but don't include LA because they are set with Quick/Ersberg.

This is what frustrates me ... that list is WAY too long ... look at all the capable AHL prospects that got screwed out of legit jobs because of these other backups. Of course, some of the moves are very legitimate and smart, but still, it's a long list!!!


* means they might win the job in TC (Helenius depends on Smitty's health)

[Zorro]

The AHL is going to be full of great goalies this year, or goalies that have been sent down because of their salaries or the young guy have just plain old out played them..

For example.. Raycroft