Absolutely. But its going to take more than just Carter for Giguierre.

First off, Giggy makes $1m more than carter, so the Flyers can barely afford him if at all. I would guess they’d send Boucher to anaheim in that deal and then waive emery. But then they’d still need a dman and two forwards now.

Personally, I hate paying a goaltender a $6m cap hit. Its just terrible fiscal management, as we’ve discussed before. I’d much prefer to fire Holmgren and Laviolette, get a new GM and bring back Stevens or, even better, Hitchcock, then sign a goalie this summer for a couple million a year and go back to being a defensive team.

There’s another glut of quality UFA goaltenders this summer, so several are going to end up with low cap hit deals. Here’s a list in terms of general talent evaluation on my part:

Nabokov
Hiller
Chris Mason (StL)

I think those are going to be five highest valued goalies. One of them could slip to the $3m a year range, which would be a good value. After those guys are a glut of serviceable secon tier goaltenders who could probably be had for $2m a year or less and with the right team are quality players:

Theodore
Ellis
Hedberg
Nittymaki

That’s 7 goaltenders, I’d be happy with who are all UFAs. You’ve also got the following RFAs flooding the market:

Harding
Price
Halak

So you’ve got 10 quality goaltenders available this summer. And how many teams would be looking for a starting goaltender right now?

Anaheim (Has Giguere, if they trade him that takes one other team of the list)
Atlanta
Boston
Buffalo
Carolina
Calgary
Chicago
Columbus ?? (They’ve got two goalies under contract but are both under $2m so they could decide to sign someone to improve)
Dallas
Detroit ?? (Same as Columbus, but I would expect them to ride Jimmy Howard and not make a move)
Edmonton (Do they eat Khaby’s $3.75m? Or suck for the next four years? Either way, Keving Lowe should not have a job.)
Florida
Los Angeles ?? (same as columbus)
Minnesota
Montreal
Nashville
New Jersey
NY Islanders (Rolosson and DiPietro)
NY Rangers
Ottawa
Philadelphia
Phoenix
Pittsburgh
San Jose
St Louis
Tampa
Toronto
Vancouver
Washington ??(I would expect them to go with and save the cap money, but he is very cheap so they could afford a big contract if someone signs without the guarantee of playing time.)

That’s 11 teams looking for a starting goalie (including Columbus as a representative of the four question mark teams, one of which I’m guess will sign a big name).

With 10 quality starting goaltenders, and no guarantee all 11 of those teams will even sign one (I’m look at you, Edmonton) there will definitely be a few goalies who sign at good value.