I mentioned in the Marc-Andre Fleury article that, because of what the Blackhawks gave up to get him, he was a low-risk, high-reward proposition in net. I think Jujhar Khaira, coming to the Blackhawks on a two-year deal worth $975,000 annually is the same way: if he’s bad, the Blackhawks have plenty of forwards and can bury him in the minors. If he’s good, well, then ... he’s good.
And he can be good. In Khaira’s second full season in the league, he played up in the lineup with Ryan Nugent-Hopkins and a combination of Sam Gagner, Jesse Puljujarvi and Zack Kassian (yes, Kassian counted as up in the lineup in Edmonton in 2018-19) and that line was very good, especially when compared to the rest of the Edmonton roster.