The 2015 NHL Draft weekend promises to be one of the more active ones in recent history, at least according to conventional wisdom. That's due in large part to the lower-than-usual increase in the salary cap, to $71.4 million, and the impact it has on several teams pushing the cap ceiling.
Add to that the fact that several goalies are on the trade market, and the tendency for general managers to treat the draft weekend as a hybrid auction and swap meet, and you have the ingredients for, as the late NHL GM Ron Caron used to say, "meat on the burner.