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Originally Posted by Geeoff
The nice thing is that since the Flames don't have a goalie to protect, we can trade for a goalie from a team that has too many goalies to protect.
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That list I imagine would be quite short. I believe Getback posted it a week or two ago.
Not many teams have 3 goalies:
1) One they are protecting
2) One they are making available, is signed for at least next year, and has played the required number of games.
3) One they are making available, is signed for at least next year, and has played the required number of games.
There are a few teams in the NHL (Trying to remember them off the top of my head, but I am drawing a blank) that have the above situation, but really a small handful.
If a team trades their only expansion eligible goalie before the expansion draft, they will need an expansion eligible goalie in return to expose in the draft and fulfill their expansion draft obligations.
For instance, if we trade for Grubauer before the expansion draft, Washington will probably ask for McCollum to be included in the trade so that he can satisfy the expansion draft obligations. Calgary would then need to sign another goalie or find another one somewhere in trade, or they will have to make Grubauer available to Vegas.
It gets a bit tricky when we are looking at trades before the expansion draft. I get the sense that Trelving is waiting for Vegas to select the goalie(s) that they want in a predetermined deal, or he and his team of pro scouts have been doing a series of mock drafts and have come to realize that if Vegas is going to draft simply the best assets possible, they will end up drafting more goalies than they need.