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Goaltending Options

CarltonTheBear said:
Heroic Shrimp said:
CarltonTheBear said:
Nik the Trik said:
Yeah, maybe I'm wrong about this but in thinking back to the older expansion drafts I seem to remember goalies typically being among the better players selected. I think to a certain extent teams won't be devastated at the prospect of losing their back-up goalies unless they're super valuable in which case they'll be dealt for a very valuable return.

Sportsnet had a top-10 players taken in modern expansion drafts list a couple of months ago. 3 goalies appeared on it: Mike Richter, Dwayne Roloson, and Tomas Vokoun. Richter was a pending UFA who re-signed with the Rangers after he was picked. Roloson and Vokoun ended up having good careers but at the time I don't think they were very highly thought of.

Corey Schwab, Trevor Kidd, and some guy named Norm Maracle were the goalies taken by Atlanta in 1999.


No love for John Vanbiesbrouck?  He was a 2nd team all-star for Florida in 1994 after going in the 1993 expansion draft and took them to the Cup finals 2 years later.

"Modern", old-timer.

So 1993 isn't modern but 1998 is?

You young folk confuse me.
 
herman said:
My ideal scenario would be that the expansion draft gives us the traded gift of a 23-25 year old goaltender with above average save percentage and still early in the dev curve, and one of the goaltenders we draft a week from today will free us up to trade that first guy in 5-6 years.

Step 1 complete.
 

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