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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Knightfall" data-source="post: 2906548" data-attributes="member: 2012">NHL GMs talking trade in VancouverCanadian Press6/23/2006 6:11:09 PMVANCOUVER (CP) - The NHL's 30 general managers sat in the same room Friday, officially to discuss the state of the game but taking time to talk trade on the side. Whether or not commissioner Gary Bettman will have any major trade announcement before the start of Saturday's 6 p.m. ET NHL entry draft remains to be seen. But there's plenty of talk and goalies are the leading the way. Florida's Roberto Luongo, San Jose's Evgeni Nabokov, Anaheim's J.S. Giguere, Buffalo's Martin Biron, Vancouver's Dan Cloutier,  Boston's Andrew Raycroft and Marc Denis of Columbus are among goalies possibly available for trade.The Ottawa Senators are among the teams looking for a goalie although they may stick with Dominik Hasek. "We're looking at everything that's available," GM John Muckler said Friday. "And there are going to be good goalies who are UFAs so we'll look at that, too." And in the end, the Senators may end up going back to Hasek, who missed the rest of the season after injuring a groin at the Olympics. He's an unrestricted free agent July 1. "Yes, you look at all the options that we have, we keep going back to Dominik because he played so well last year," said Muckler. "Whether we'll make that decision, it'll be sometime down the road. I'd like to talk to Dominik, I never got a chance to talk to him before he left." Pascal Leclaire is ready to be a starter in Columbus so Blue Jackets GM Doug MacLean may be ready to deal Denis for the right price. The Tampa Bay Lightning are believed to be interested. On the coaching front, former Detroit Red Wings coach Dave Lewis met with the Boston Bruins here Friday. The job isn't officially vacant yet, although Mike Sullivan's days appear to be numbered. New Bruins GM Peter Chiarelli also interviewed former Toronto Maple Leafs coach Pat Quinn last week and it appears it's between Lewis and Quinn for the job. The St. Louis Blues continued to get calls for their first overall pick ahead of Saturday's draft, but odds are they won't move it and will draft American defenceman Erik Johnson. The Pittsburgh Penguins have the second overall pick and the Carolina Hurricanes have made a courtesy call. With Eric Staal already a star on their team, getting his brother Jordan would be a coup. "Any time you have a chance to move up and draft a player like Jordan Staal you have to look into it but honestly there isn't anything serious at this point," Jim Rutherford, the GM of the Stanley Cup champions, said Friday. Meanwhile agents and GMs are also meeting in a bid to get players re-signed before July 1. Detroit Red Wings GM Ken Holland met with Norris Trophy winner Nicklas Lidstrom and his agent Don Meehan on Friday. The star blue-liner can become an unrestricted free agent July 1. "We've had a number of meetings and I think today was a good meeting," Meehan said. "Ken will get back to us on Monday." Muckler also has his hands full with time running out before both star defencemen Zdeno Chara and Wade Redden become unrestricted free agents. Can he get it done? "That's a hard question for me to answer," Muckler said Friday. "I met with Matt Keator (Chara's agent) yesterday, we had a good conversation. No results at this particular time. But it's going in the right direction I think." Said Keator on Friday: "We're staying in touch. We'll see what happens." Time is of the essence. Muckler needs an answer soon from both players. "We want to know before the deadline (July 1)," said Muckler. "We pretty well have to know that because we have to know what path we're going to take. We can't decide that until this is settled one way or another." The Montreal Canadiens also have a pair of pending unrestricted free agents in goalie Cristobal Huet and defenceman Francis Bouillon. "We're in discussions with both of them and we've told them we'd like to keep both of them," said Canadiens GM Bob Gainey. "But again it comes down to the parties coming to an agreement that is going to make them feel that they didn't miss anything by not going to free agency and for the team to know that they still have enough money to do the other things still on their list to get their team together." Star defenceman Rob Blake is hoping to join teammate Joe Sakic and re-sign with the Colorado Avalanche. "It's where I want to play, in Denver," Blake told the Rocky Mountain News in Friday's edition, adding that he planned to talk with the Avs on Monday or Tuesday. "I've enjoyed every bit of time I've had there and I'm pretty confident something should get done next week. I don't see why it wouldn't. "Until it's signed and everything is done, you never know what could happen, but from my side, I've enjoyed my time there and would like to continue there, for sure."</blockquote>

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