July 1st has always resulted in a goalie carousel around the league and today will be no exception. TSN’s Darren Dreger reports (Twitter link) that netminder Anton Khudobin has agreed to a two-year deal worth roughly $5MM with Dallas. That more than doubles his previous contract which paid him $1.2MM
Khudobin is coming off one of the best seasons of his career where he posted a 2.56 GAA with a .913 SV% in 31 appearances for the Bruins. Despite that, he was unable to come to terms on a new deal in Boston despite reportedly being just $150K apart in negotiations.
The 32-year-old will replace Kari Lehtonen as the backup to veteran starter Ben Bishop. Considering that Bishop had trouble staying healthy down the stretch, it’s no surprise that GM Jim Nill targeted another goalie that can play more than 15-20 games per season as they will certainly benefit from having that insurance if he gets injured again.
That’s pretty expensive for a backup goalie, especially when you consider what they’re paying Bishop already..
That’s less than half what they were paying Lehtonen to backup last year, though.
Not as expensive as Mason backing up Price in Montreal! That’s $14 million in total salary in net alone!!
mason is being bought out No?
and it was apparent khudobin was getting 2.25 or more compared to the predictions.
They gave him a million a year to much