The San Jose Sharks will have another starting goaltender next season.
San Jose Executive VP and General Manager Doug Wilson met with longtime starter Evgeni Nabokov on Tuesday and told him the team will not offer a contract when the soon-to-be 35-year-old goaltender becomes an unrestricted free agent on July 1.
Wilson said the decision to look elsewhere for goaltending was simply a matter of allocating money under the salary cap.
"We would like to thank Nabby for the time he has spent in San Jose," Wilson said during a news conference. "Nabby has been a big part of this team for the past 10 seasons and played an important role is our successes. This decision boils down to a dedication of dollars in a salary cap system and under this system, teams can't keep everyone. We are excited about the goaltenders coming up through our system and we will also keep an eye on assets that may become available in the coming weeks." - NHL.com
If their latest crop only is a collection of cool names, San Jose also has the opportunity to pursue other free agent options like Chris Mason, Dan Ellis, Jose Theodore, Ray Emery, Marty Turco, Marty Biron, the aforemention, former Shark Toskala, among others.
In short, it probably signals that Wilson would like to retain some, if not all of their other pending free agents like Patrick Marleau, Patrick Marleau, RFAs Joe Pavelski, Devin Setoguchi, face off gurus, Scott Nichol and Manny Malhotra, as well as stay at home blueliner Niclas Wallin; and that bringing back Nabokov would have hindered that project.
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