Re: Grubauer or Binnington next year
I would go Binnington. Especially if you could sell Grubauer this season, because I don’t think he will ever have this good a year again.
Coming into the season, Grubauer and Francouz were basically supposed to be 1A and 1B prior to Francouz getting injured. Many outlets, like Yahoo, and myself lol, had Francouz ahead of Grubauer. And if he hadn’t gotten injured, I believe we would be talking about Francouz being awesome and a Grubauer being his very good, injury prone GK partner. Perhaps both of them are injury prone at this point. But either way, whenever Francouz, who’s only 30, returns, I think worse case scenario is a 50/50 split. And I personally think Francouz is a more talented GK. But that opinion is only based on one year of seeing Francouz play in the NHL.
Either way, given their relative ages, and the fact that Binnington will still be the clear top dog for the ?Blues for the foreseeable future, I would absolutely have to go with Binnington. And also because I think Binnington is the most talented of the two. I always go talent over team ability. And talent plus clear number 1 role for me beats anything Grubauer has to offer
The problem with picking a GK solely based on them being on the superior team, is that you could probably put any number of GKs in net for the Avs and they’d put up terrific numbers. Which means Grubauer is semi replaceable. Unless you could lock down the entire GK core in Colorado, meaning Francouz and maybe even Johansson now, like people do with RB and QB in fantasy football, you are buying, or in this case keeping a very situation specific piece rather than talent. And in this case, one that has, IMO, an even better GK behind him, who is only temporarily out of the picture due to injury.
So, I go Binnington for long term every day on this one.
Grubauer for this season, but beyond that, the situation is way too muddled to depend on him repeating what he’s doing now.
As an example. Mike Smith is also having a terrific year. Would you choose him over say, someone like Shesterkin, Price or even like Gibson?
18 Team H2H Dynasty 9x4 cat. Roster 30 + 2 NA, 4 DL. 4C,4LW,4RW,6D,1G,11BN
Scoring cats are G, A, +\-, PIM, PPP, SHP, FW, HIT, BLK
W, GAA, SV%, SHO.
C: Crosby, Horvat, , E. Lindholm (RW), Aho, W. Johnston (RW), Bjugstad,
LW: Marchand, J. Benn, E. Kane, Fiala, Barbashev (C), Schwartz (C), Namestikov (C)
RW: M. Tkachuk (LW), JT Miller (C), Batherson, Hyman (LW), Frederic (C), Palmieri
D: J. Carlson, Josi, Doughty, Pietrangelo, Seider, Gudas, Ekman-Larsson,
G: Vasilievkiy, Shesterkin, Husso
NA: Mukhamadullin (D), I. Rosen (RW), D. .Levi (G)
LTIR: Landeskog (LW), Dach (C)