Calgary Flames: Goaltender Eddie Lack placed on waivers
By Ramina Shlah
As of this morning, Calgary Flames backup goaltender Eddie Lack has been placed on waivers and has not been picked up yet. More on that here.
This morning, Eddie Lack was put on waivers. The Calgary Flames acquired the netminder this off-season in a trade with the Carolina Hurricanes for basically peanuts. More on that trade here.
Eddie Lack hasn’t been picked up yet, but there’s still tomorrow morning. Unfortunately, he hasn’t had the best success this season so far. He has started two games and had to relieve Mike Smith twice. Once, because Smith allowed five goals (vs. the Ottawa Senators) and Eddie came in for the last half of the third period where he allowed one goal on six shots. Another was because Smith got injured in the first period against the St. Louis Blues and Eddie played in the last two periods. That’s his only win this season.
This season, he’s 1-2-0 with an SV% of 0.813. He has allowed 12 goals on just 64 shots.
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While frequency of 40+ shot games for Mike Smith is one factor, #Flames upcoming schedule would also suggest that the back-up goalie -- whoever it is -- is about to take on a bigger role:
— Darren Haynes (@DarrenWHaynes) November 23, 2017
- First 50 days, 21 games and 2 back-to-backs
- Next 50 days, 23 games and 5 back-to-backs
The Calgary Flames play Friday evening vs. the Dallas Stars and Saturday evening vs. the Colorado Avalanche. So they will need a backup goalie and if Lack doesn’t get picked up by any team, he may remain with the team on the road-trip for Friday evening. But nobody quite knows if the Flames are planning on recalling either Jon Gillies or David Rittich from Stockton for Saturday night. Both goalies have been doing quite well this season.
AHL goalie numbers this year:
— Pat Steinberg (@Fan960Steinberg) November 23, 2017
Gillies 5-4-1, 0.919 SV%, 2.51 GAA
Rittich 5-1-0, 0.931 SV%, 2.17 GAA#Flames
It may not be ideal to get one of them up and have their main role being to keep the bench warm.
Or maybe Brad Treliving has something else up his sleeve. We can never trust him, he’s always pulling out the stops and surprising everyone. Nonetheless, many Flames fans feel bad for Lack.
Wherever Eddie ends up, I just really hope he gets into some GAMES. Hard to break out of a funk with one start a month. https://t.co/Lg5r6sDl7Q
— Gregory Balloch (@GregBalloch) November 23, 2017
Eddie doesn't deserve this. I know he hasn't been great so far but he's also only gotten like 2 starts in 21 games. Unless the goalie called up gets more starts I'd much rather have Lack sitting 75% of the time over Gillies or Rittich. https://t.co/UlwO5YfY3G
— Tomas (@Tomas_TDE) November 23, 2017
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We’ll have to wait until tomorrow to find out Lack’s fate and the Flames goaltending situation. It seems like this is always a problem every season.