Goalie News

[Stumpy]

RALEIGH, NC - Don Waddell, President and General Manager of the National Hockey League's Carolina Hurricanes, today announced that the team has reassigned goaltender Antoine Bibeau to the Chicago Wolves of the American Hockey League (AHL).

https://www.nhl.com/hurricanes/news/canes-reassign-antoine-bibeau-to-chicago/c-321723284

I would assume that means Mrazek will be back soon. I'd imagine he'll be traveling with the team to Tampa. We might not see him in the net for a little bit. But, with Bibeau back in CHI, Petr must be healthy enough to be our emergency 3rd.

Edited February 24, 2021 by Stumpy

[cookinbrak]

The other night they said he was skating and taking hits, but no stick yet.

[Stumpy]

2 minutes ago, cookinbrak said:

The other night they said he was skating and taking hits, but no stick yet.

He's been skating for at last a week or so. From what I understand, teams have to carry a goalie on the taxi squad. I don't think we'd send Bibeau down unless Petr was already stick handling. 

[Harbingers]

12 hours ago, Stumpy said:

He's been skating for at last a week or so. From what I understand, teams have to carry a goalie on the taxi squad. I don't think we'd send Bibeau down unless Petr was already stick handling. 

We've been carrying him as our third goalie the entire time, just game scratches.

Mrazek still hasn't done any stick work though according to Rod. He has done everything else though. They are definitely giving it a lot of time to heal up properly before even putting a stick in his hand.

Edited February 24, 2021 by Harbingers

[Stumpy]

3 hours ago, Harbingers said:

We've been carrying him as our third goalie the entire time, just game scratches.

Mrazek still hasn't done any stick work though according to Rod. He has done everything else though. They are definitely giving it a lot of time to heal up properly before even putting a stick in his hand.

Just looked and saw RBAs comments yesterday. Hopefully he'll have the stick back in his hand soon. I'm glad they are going to let take as long as he needs, though. 

[Stumpy]

[Harbingers]

Oh my. Stick in hand.

[Harbingers]

Interesting...

 

[GamecockSmitty4]

I'm usually pretty up to speed with prospects but never heard of this guy. Definitely smaller, even smaller than Ned, but that may become a market inefficiency going forward as the trend is for goalies to become bigger and bigger.

 

 

[Rocky Davis]

Heard we are also interested in signing Usher Cooler for goalie depth for the Wolves.

[Harbingers]

More Goalie movement. Odd.

[Harbingers]

 

[Harbingers]

He has the third lowest xGAA on money puck for those that have started 9+ games and is the lowest(19) goals for those that have started at least 9 games.

[Stumpy]

2 hours ago, Harbingers said:

He has the third lowest xGAA on money puck for those that have started 9+ games and is the lowest(19) goals for those that have started at least 9 games.

Edited March 15, 2021 by Stumpy