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Red Wings Free Agent Signings Cam Talbot
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Jul 7, 2024
In this episode of The Hockey Writers Grind Line, Detroit Red Wings writers Devin Little and Evan Sabourin get together with producer Matthew Zator to discuss the Red Wings signing Cam Talbot in free agency.
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Evan, I'll start with you since you wrote an article on this
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What do you think about Cam Talbot being added here? Well, I, he just turned 37 the other day, I believe, or this week
0:12
So he's getting up a little long in the tooth. He's still very effective goalie
0:16
I mean, he was one of the better goalies last year in the first half of the season, played
0:21
really well for the Kings. He was even, even their all-star selection, but down the stretch kind of faltered, kind
0:28
of almost like the same thing we saw with Alex Lyon, because he did start 54 games last year
0:35
And for me, for a guy his age, it's probably a little too many, probably too many starts
0:41
And then the Kings went with the Jerniman Rittich a little more down the stretch
0:45
But I mean, Talbot had, you know, a 9-13, same percentage last year
0:50
I think he's like over a 900 for career. So I mean, again, this is the bridge to Cosa, you know, low term, low term, low dollar
1:02
I still feel like another move's coming. I don't know if it's going to be the goalie, though
1:06
Eisenman mentioned in his press conference before, I think it was before the draft even
1:11
that, you know, he didn't see himself envisioning himself carrying three goalies like he did
1:16
last year. So that's where I'm interested. It just, it feels like there's a lot of goalies, man
1:21
I don't, you know, Jack Campbell, we haven't gotten to yet. I'll save that for later
1:25
I don't want to ruin that. But yeah, I mean, if you can, I mean, if you can platoon him and Alex Lyon, can we rely
1:33
on Husso? I mean, there's so, that's the million dollar question is what direction are they going
1:39
to go? And I think even us as hockey writers or whatever, like, I don't think I have what their plan is
1:46
I don't know what the plan is with Husso. I still think they're going to try to unload him
1:49
I don't think they buy him out, especially in his last year of his deal
1:53
But I think they're going to try to move him and maybe it's a share with Lyon and Talbot
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But I think Max, you know, Talbot is, you know, 35, 40 starts
2:04
I think it's going to be a real 1A, 1B if that's what they do
2:08
But I think we're going to find out in the next week or so, because it just feels like
2:11
there's so many goalies and they traded for the Anaheim prospect, Gage Alexander
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Every so goalie central here, you know, one of them's got to hit, right
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One of them's got to hit, right? So, and they drafted another big one too
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So one of them's got to hit, you know, one out of seven or whatever, how many there are
2:34
So yeah, it's going to be interesting
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