Glendale, Arizona - A door like this opens occasionally for a National Hockey League goaltender.
A door into a world of redemption and respect and maybe, just maybe, a future. And It's a door that, despite all that promise, can slam closed just as emphatically, and permanently.
Anders Lindback of the Arizona Coyotes is confronting just such a door.
Starting Thursday night at home against the Columbus Blue Jackets, it's now Lindback's showin Arizona.
Starter Mike Smith is out two months or more with a core body injury that required surgery.