When Sergei Bobrovsky took his show on the road and washed up in the Florida Panthers net, the writing was on the wall for Columbus. With no starter, they were toast this year. And Jarmo Kekäläinen decided to follow up his bold moves last year at the deadline with a bold lack of a move, and he just went with what he had.
What he had in net was a giant question mark. Actually, make that a whole series of question marks. During Bobrovsky’s peak years in Columbus, the backup chair was filled by Steve Mason for the first year and Curtis McElhinney for the next two and a half years.