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Originally Posted by Enoch Root
It's always interesting to see how things actually play out, vs how we expected them to.
Now that we're here, I don't think Vegas will take as many goalies as I originally expected. The problem is that if they do, they kind of kill their own trade market.
If they are sitting on half a dozen goalies, all of which are NHLers, they are basically hooped because they have to move them. They can't hold on to more than two, or three at the very most.
So the value of those goalies would plummet. If they have to move 3 or 4 goalies, the other GMs are going to offer them peanuts.
For Treliving, getting Smith prior to the expansion draft may well have been a shrewd move. If he hadn't, he would need a goalie, and Vegas could play hardball. Now, he isn't desperate, and if Vegas ends up with a bunch of tenders, he may be able to grab one on the cheap.
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I only think they take goalies for two reasons:
1. They take ones they plan on keeping
2. They take a goalie if another team asks them to, and the value they get from that team is worth more to Vegas than another player they can take from that team.
I don't think they take any goalies unless they plan keeping them or have a trade for that goalie already worked out with a 3rd team.