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The Available Goalies

06/26/2015 at 8:07am EDT

from Stephen Whyno of the CP at CTVNews,

Get your goaltender, any goaltender. Well, at least one of a handful of goaltenders.

In the lead-up to the NHL draft, the goalie trade market is hot and more unique than ever. The Ottawa Senators are shopping Craig Anderson and Robin Lehner, the Vancouver Canucks could deal Eddie Lack or Jacob Markstrom, while backups Cam Talbot of the New York Rangers and Martin Jones of the Los Angeles Kings are available.

"It's probably a different market," Philadelphia Flyers general manager Ron Hextall said last week in Voorhees, N.J. "There's some decent goalies out there in the market. There's probably a couple teams looking for (starters) and it depends where you view them. It's a tough call."

Edmonton Oilers GM Peter Chiarelli called it a buyers' market because there are more goalies being dangled than teams looking to acquire them. The six most prominent goalies out there also represent a wide range of experience and expectations.

"You've got some younger, smaller-sample-size guys, you've got some more proven guys," Chiarelli said in Edmonton this week. "This goalie thing we've been looking at it very closely and it's tough."

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