Bye Bye Belfour

Steve says:

Belfour will be in Sweden this season. He signed on with Swedish club Leksands IF on Monday.
Belfour went 27-17-10 with a 2.77 goals-against average for the Florida Panthers last season.
A two-time Vezina Trophy winner, Belfour is third place on the all-time wins list behind Martin Brodeur and Hall of Famer Patrick Roy. Belfour is also a five-time All-Star, with 484 career wins, a 2.50 GAA and 76 shutouts in 963 games with Florida, Chicago (1988-96), San Jose (1996-97), Dallas (1997-2002) and Toronto (2002-06).

I know he has had some issues with the law lately...and that is my thinking about why no club has signed him...he's not "the best" but he is still a lot better than a lot of tenders out there...

Chris says:

Unsteady Eddie. What happened?

Getting in a bar fight and then claiming that the floor was just slippery and you "accidentally" fell on the other guy?

I was a big Cujo fan and when Belfour first came on the scene I wasn't willing to give him the time of day. But during his stay in Toronto he admirably filled Cujo's duties(and then some). After a pretty h0-hum year with Raycroft between the pipes I caught myself wishing for his return on more than one occasion.

Now he's being banished across the pond, his NHL career at an end. That is until someone else's netminder has a meltdown halfway throught the season. At which point time, Belfour starts to look like a viable option.