The goaltending market was not very kind to Karri Ramo, who may not have done enough to spark interest in other teams, when the deals were going down. Instead of waiting for someone to come knocking and pay nothing to do so, the Flames re-signed the Finnish netminder, giving him 1-year at $3.8 million, and he'll be a part of a three goalie training camp battle royale, with Jonas Hiller and Joni Ortio.
In 34 regular season appearances with the Flames, Ramo picked up 15 wins and 2 shutouts for 34 points, averaging a point per appearance and just over a point for every 60 minutes chalked up last season.
It's a crowded crease and there is going to be a lot of hard decisions to be made in Calgary, especially given the money handed out to Hiller and Ramo, possibly edging Ortio out, by virtue of the paycheque. Usually projections for goaltenders come when the rest of the team is projected, which for the Flames, could be a little while down the road, since they have these huge decisions to be made.
When it comes down to draft time, you better have a pretty good idea about how the Flames are going to divide up the crease time between the three goalies and hope that they don't add a fourth here any time soon to make it any murkier.
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