Goaltender Jhonas Enroth has landed in Los Angeles, inking a one-year deal with the Kings that is worth an annual cap hit of $1.25 million.
Appears Kings will have a new potential Jonathan Quick backup in Jhonas Enroth. Reports are one-year, $1.25M deal.
— Eric Stephens (@icemancometh) July 1, 2015
Senior Editor Ken Hill had this to say, in his article of Top 10 NHL UFA Goaltenders 2015:
After a long mentorship under perennial all-star and Vezina-winner Ryan Miller in Buffalo, a five season span that saw Enroth play just a small handful of games each year, the Swede was finally given a shot at being the main man in the crease after Miller signed as a free agent in Vancouver last summer.
Unfortunately, being the starter on a historically awful team with a porous defense that left him to fend for himself all too often had, unsurprisingly, a negative effect on Enroth’s raw numbers. In 37 appearances with the Sabres last year, Enroth allowed four or more goals an embarrassing 15 times, including one game allowing seven goals and three more allowing six.
Mercifully in February Enroth was shipped out to Dallas, where despite playing behind a better team, Enroth actually saw his even strength save percentage decrease (from .917 in Buffalo to .908 in Dallas).
While last season and his small stature may scare some teams off, there is still much potential in the 26-year-old to be a quality back-up at the NHL level, especially on a club that doesn’t hang him out to try on a nightly basis.
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PRAGUE, CZECH REPUBLIC - MAY 01: Jhonas Enroth of Sweden stop the last penalty shoot of Vladimir Sobotka of Czech Republic during the 2015 IIHF World Championship between Czech Republic and Sweden at O2 arena on May 1, 2015 in Prague, Czech Republic . (Photo by Xavier Laine/Getty Images)
