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Originally Posted by PepsiFree
It’s just less likely than developing one. Your best hope is a team develops two and you can snag one of them. I think the vast majority of goalies are developed by the teams they’re on, with a minority being trades, and a smaller minority being free agents (for above league-average starters, for sure).
Also worth noting that 17/20 Stanley Cup winners had a starter they drafted and developed (if my math is right) and nobody has won without a goalie they drafted and developed since 2007.
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Bruins won with Tim Thomas in 2011.
My math has Thomas, Osgood (2008) Giguere, Khabibhulin, Hasek, Roy, Belfour being acquired via trade or UFA out of the last 20 Stanley cup winners.