It seemed like a harmless social-media post, but could it be indicative of what Coyotes fans should expect next season?

The Coyotes rolled out its weekly round of "Wallpaper Wednesday" designs, custom-made images that fans can use as wallpaper for their various devices, and both images featured Antti Raanta and Darcy Kuemper, the club's two goaltenders heading into next season.

It was one of the first times both Raanta and Kuemper have been featured together in a team promotion. And it likely won't be the last.

When Raanta was acquired prior to the 2017-18 season, it was assumed that the former backup with the Chicago Blackhawks and New York Rangers would shift into a starting role. However, injuries in each of the previous two seasons have prevented Raanta from starting as many games as he would have liked.

Meanwhile, the Coyotes acquired Kuemper in Feb. 2018 and signed him to a two-year extension to be the backup for Raanta, who signed a three-year extension in April 2018.

But when Raanta became injured again this season, it was Kuemper who took the ball and ran with it, posting a 27-20-8 record to go along with a 2.33 goals allowed average. There is a real chance Kuemper could yield a top-five finish in voting for the Vezina Trophy, awarded annually to the NHL's top goaltender.

One of the biggest storylines of the offseason and in training camp will undoubtedly be just what the Coyotes expect to do with Raanta and Kuemper for the 2019-20 season. But instead of viewing the situation as a competition, perhaps we should begin looking at Raanta and Kuemper as a partnership.

Social-media posts aside, one needs only to look at some of the teams still alive in the Stanley Cup Playoffs to get a clue.

The Carolina Hurricanes (Petr Mrazek), Boston Bruins (Tuukka Rask), New York Islanders (Robin Lehner) and Dallas Stars (Ben Bishop) have benefited this season from resting their starting goaltenders and employing somewhat of a tandem in net during their respective regular seasons.

More and more teams have begun to stray from one goaltender shouldering, say, 60 games per season, citing evidence that today's game is more taxing on goaltenders than ever before.

"You look at the Islanders and they basically had two starting goalies this year," Coyotes President of Hockey Operations and General Manager Jonn Chayka said on the team's exit day April 8. "That's a big key to their success and why they went so far. So, I think we went through a lot of effort and put a lot of thought and invested a lot of assets into getting to this stage, where you have two starting goalies.

"There are organizations that'll go a decade without having one of the goalies that we have. We have two of them."

Despite hardly playing in the first several weeks of the season, Kuemper logged 55 games this season, significantly more than each of those aforementioned goaltenders as well as Tampa Bay Lightning goaltender Andrei Vasilevskiy (53 regular-season games), who along with Lehner (46) and Bishop (46) were announced as the three finalists for the Vezina.

Most playoff teams seem to be benefitting from the added freshness of their starting goaltenders, namely Rask and Bishop, two veterans who have been overworked in the past and seem to have adjusted well to sharing regular-season duties.

Of course, the Coyotes could always elect to trade one of their goalies to address their scoring deficiencies — but with both Raanta and Kuemper in the fold, two goaltenders who have put up Vezina-caliber numbers in the past two years, the Coyotes find themselves in a position to take advantage of the tandem philosophy.

"I just think it's a demanding position," Chayka said. "Injuries occur. It's something where we view it as an asset that they're both great goalies, they're both great people. If we have to go through a stage where they're splitting time or there's some sort of a cycle there, I think that's a good problem to have."

Richard Morin covers the Coyotes and Diamondbacks for azcentral sports. He can be reached at rmorin@arizonarepublic.com. Follow him on Twitter @ramorin_azc. Subscribe to azcentral today.