What do you think? Could he be a 30W goalie next year?

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absolutely... but don't expect much mre than 30.

I think if TB gets off to a good start... Lindy developes a little confidence, he could be this year's Smith... not quite the numbers because PHO plays such a sound defensive game and TB does NOT... I think you could see something like:

61 GMs
33 Ws
4 SOs

We will also have to see how the Lightning will roll out their 23 blueliners...

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G: Halak, Niemi, Lehner

Agree on the 30 wins - the Bolts instantly become a much better team with Lindback in net. They should contend with the Caps for the division title - I imagine they will be a playoff team this year.

Few points to consider:

- Tampa Bay as a team are better than last season (unless I'm missing something). Added a couple of quality blue-liners which improves their defense group and added some depth with Pouliot..pretty much all of the other forwards have remained the same..and I bet Lindback provides more stable goaltending than Roloson does (wouldn't be too hard)
BUT
- Don't know if Lindback can handle the workload to play 60 games. He has never played more than 42 games in a season in any league so there is a risk that fatigue starts hitting him later in the season.

Really hard to say how he'll do this season because I can't really recall off the top of my head the last time a player was in this kind of situation.

Mike Smith!

I cant see Lindbach playing more then 50-55 games tops

Lindback has a lot less experience and exposure than Smith did going into last season.

What do you figure to be the reason for a reduced load?

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[Win3..SV.3..GA-3]
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D - Green, Girardi, Murray, Ference, Garrison
G - Price, Rask, Bobrovsky, Nabokov

Approx 45-50 starts, maybe 28 or so wins. The D is much improved, but won't be one of the league's best. Stevie Y understands Lindback is still raw and won't rush him.

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D: C Fowler, Kronwall, A Goligoski, JM Liles, M Giordano, K Letang, N Nikitin, R Josi

G: J Quick, A Niemi, C Anderson, Rinne

That means Garon plays 30 games? I see Lindback being closer to 60 starts.

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[G3..A1..SHG+1..SHA+1..BLK.3..HIT.1..SOG.1..FOW.01]
[Win3..SV.3..GA-3]
F - Tavares, Parise, Callahan, Pacioretty, Iginla, Carter, Richards, Brown, Lecavalier, Duchene, Kulemin
D - Green, Girardi, Murray, Ference, Garrison
G - Price, Rask, Bobrovsky, Nabokov

In his first year as a starter in NHL? I don't see it. Garon should get 30-40 starts next year and Lindback being closer to 50 starts.

There was already a thread about this a while ago and gave my projection for Lindback there:

http://forums.dobbersports.com/showthread.php?t=134779

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