The longer we run with JoeyMac as the starter, the more we run the risk of creating a Irving/McElhinney situation. The coach has more confidence in the established goalie. The team doesn't play well in front of the backup. The backup gets fewer starts as the games become more important.
Ramo gets the first start of the year. He gets shelled with 39 shots, and loses it in SO. The team didn't cover his butt. JoeyMac play the 2nd of a b2b and gets the win with a good, but not great game. Instead of going back to Ramo, and working your butt off to get him the win, they start JoeyMac. Joey makes some decent saves, but the team fails to help him close it out. Next game, go with the "hot hand" again. Joey gets some great saves again, and gets the win.
I love to see the team winning at the start of the season for a change. We always had the slow Iggy starts, and the Kipper not at the top of his form, and the backup not capable of winning more than 1/3 games. We are proving the talking heads wrong. What worries me is that we are starting down that road again; looking at results and thinking that winning is the only important thing. In a rebuild you look for any positives, but you don't forsake the issues you need to solve; developing a goalie with a longer shelf life, evaluating all the prospects in your system, improving FO, special teams and defensive coverage.
Starting Joey is good in the short term, but doesn't solve the issue in nets. Continuing to start him just delays the problem, and make it harder to solve down the road. Maybe I just overreact, but I want more than an "insurance policy" as a long term replacement to Kipper.