Philipp Grubauer, shaking off last year’s early-season inconsistency to rise up as a bona fide NHL starter?
Never a doubt in our minds.
Grubauer, who took over the primary crease-minding duties for Colorado this season following the departure of Semyon Varlamov, has been perfectly fine through his first two games of the season.
It’s early yet; maybe Martin Jones and Craig Anderson and Ben Bishop will all find their sea legs, maybe Grubauer and Darcy Kuemper and John Gibson will start to falter, and maybe Carter Hart will outlast them all. We’re still at the part of the season where fanbases want to panic, but absolutely shouldn’t — after all, it hasn’t even been a full year since the current Stanley Cup Champions were sitting, quite literally, last place in the league to preface their historic rise to the top of everyone.