Five-year contract and a reported salary of $3.4 million per year. These are the numbers of the Florida Panthers' new acquisition, James Reimer. A signing which has consequences for Swiss goalie Reto Berra. Traded to Florida from Colorado only recently, the 29-year-old faces heavy competition with Reimer and the aging Canadian goalie Roberto Luongo.
With Berra dropping to No. 3 in Florida's goalie hierarchy, it seems more than likely that he will see a lot of AHL-ice in the upcoming 2016-17 season. His new work place might thus not be in the sunshine state Florida, but in Springfield, Massachusetts, where the Panthers' AHL-affiliate, the Thunderbirds, are located. (tme)
