from Arthur Staple of Newsday,

The simplest fix, of course, is for Halak and his .916 career save percentage and Thomas Greiss and his .913 career save percentage to start returning to their average NHL forms. Halak entered Saturday’s start at .903, which isn’t great but is at least buoyed by his .932 even strength save percentage (courtesy Corsica Hockey). That latter number is 13th in the NHL among goaltenders with at least 200 minutes played....

Here are five goaltenders who might be on the block and their numerous flaws:

Petr Mrazek/Jimmy Howard, Red Wings. Mrazek is a pending restricted free agent and he’s still only 25 and under contractual control for a couple more seasons. Howard has had some success in the past and found his game last season after losing the starter’s net....

If the Isles were to go for either one, they would likely need Halak and his $4.5-million cap hit to go the other way. Mrazek makes $4 million and the Wings are already using long-term injured reserve to stay under the salary cap, so they would need to dump another unwanted contract in the deal and Snow certainly does not want to hamstring future moves this season.

Robin Lehner, Sabres. He’s put up remarkably respectable numbers (.915 save percentage/.929 even-strength save percentage) on a lousy team for the second straight year. But the pending RFA cost the Sabres a first-round pick when they acquired him from Ottawa in 2015 and Snow is unlikely to surrender one of his two first-rounders for a goaltender at this stage, if at all.

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