Trade brewing with crease-heavy Oilers?

The Edmonton Oilers have signed goaltender Jeff Deslauriers to a one-year contract. Deslauriers, 26, took hold of the club’s starting goal-tending assignment, after veteran Nikolai Khabibulin went on the IR with a back injury. In 48 games, Deslauriers posted a respectable 16-28-4 record last year with a telling .901 save percentage on a team that had trouble providing him with any goal support. With the Deslauriers signing, the Oilers now boast three potential number-one netminders; The Bulin Wall, Devan Dubnyk and Deslaurier. Expect Oilers’ GM Steve Tambellini to attempt to trade one of the three prior to the opening of the team’s pre-season camp in September. Deslaurier, who has proven he can be an every-day NHL goaltender, may very well be the odd man out here. Throwing both caution and speculation to the wind, Tambellini could decide that Khabibulin, who is currently facing a DUI charge in Arizona, is the proverbial sacrificial lamb, as he continues to rid his ...