Kyle Dubas on improving the blue line: “With some of the contractual situations of our blue liners, it is an area we are going to have to address in the long run”

Take us through the timeline — why now, or why last night, did you make a move for a backup goalie?

Dubas: It was moving that way, really, throughout the day yesterday. I would even go back to Tuesday when we traveled to New York. With the trade deadline now on the horizon, I think teams were a little bit more certain about what they were going to do and wanted to do, so we had the opportunity to act and got it done late in the evening last night. These things usually take shape over the whole season and different discussions with different teams about what they are looking to do and the way they may go.