Fansided · May 22, 2017
Florida Panthers Goaltending Questions; James Reimer A Potential Number One
The Florida Panthers inked James Reimer to a five-year, 17 million dollar deal during free agent frenzy last offseason. With the hopes he could serve as a solid “1B” to the veteran Roberto Luongo, who was coming off of a small hip procedure.
Lu and Reimer both started 39 games in the 2016-17 campaign, splitting the workload throughout Luongo’s injury struggles. A career high for Reimer and in the process he respectively earned the title of “1A”.
The Panthers can keep holding on to the “1A, 1B” theory, but it’s hard to avoid that Luongo is aging and did not look the same this past season. Whether this was due to injury or being rushed back, it leaves some question marks in-goal for the Cats.