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Originally Posted by powderjunkie
It's pretty much true in the cap era. IIRC Osgood is the exception...a homegrown DET guy that left and came back.
The logical aspect is that if you have an elite goaltender, you probably aren't letting them walk away
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Yeah it’s exactly that. NHL teams rarely trade goalies drafted in the first round and especially goalies showing potential.
It’s rare because teams don’t move those goalies, it has nothing to do with goalies joining new teams as UFA. Or I guess you could say “goalies who get to UFA are typically not great”…