NHL Community: Jamie Hersch and Stu Grimson speaking about veteran free brokers who’re nonetheless trying to catch on to a staff for the 2024-25 NHL season.
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Jamie Hersch: “There are additionally guys who stay unsigned. These are guys who’ve made nice careers for themselves, however now discover themselves 35 years or older. Sure or no, it’s bizarre that we’re saying 35 is outdated.”
Stu Grimson: “Doesn’t make, doesn’t make them dangerous individuals. Doesn’t make them dangerous individuals.”
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Hersch: “Older gamers, there are gamers in a league through which we’re seeing 18, 19, 20-year-old mild it up on a nightly foundation. And so you could have these guys that appear like they’d be a positive signal for an NHL staff, they usually’re nonetheless not. Is there somebody on that listing that you just suppose ought to most likely get a contract someplace?”
Yeah, I feel Antti Raanta. The goaltending place is all the time form of that actually suspect space the place, truthfully, you would possibly determine eight to 10 golf equipment yearly which have issues a couple of serviceable backup. And that is what Antti Raanta has established himself over the course of his profession.
He’s been part of plenty of completely different organizations. He has offered actually strong service. Would you consider that over the course of his 11 years, throughout, I feel, 5 or 6 completely different groups, he’s solely had a single shedding season.
Final 12 months with the Carolina Hurricanes, he’s 19, sorry, that’s two years again, 19-3-3. Final 12 months, he’s 12-7-2. Once more, in a considerably restricted function, however Antti Raata over his profession, has confirmed himself to be a extremely dependable second, generally third in Carolina.
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However he, he’s a man that, I feel for the fitting membership, and maybe it’s, you understand, it’s properly value taking a shot, taking a look at Antti Raanta on a one-year deal at a somewhat modest determine.
