I’ve never gotten this excited about a goaltending prospect.
I mean, all things considered, I’m on the newer end of the spectrum in terms of how long I’ve been a fan, so take that for what it is, but aside from a baby-faced Martin Jones, freshly and bravely plucked from the Boston Bruins in a giant middle finger to the Los Angeles Kings, there haven’t been too many times that I’ve thought the San Jose Sharks’ crease was going to be in good hands for awhile.
And yeah, we were all a little too hopeful about Model Goalie Mantas Armalis at one point and maybe we jinxed goaltending depth for the next couple year because of it, but it’s fine because I got to see him play exactly once and it was his one and only shutout with the San Jose Barracuda, and he looked damn fine doing it.