Coach Bednar said in today's pre-game interview that Francouz was not expected back in the near future, and right now Avs have an AHL backup as their NHL backup, which isn't good enough.

Adding Georgiev would give the team a reliable backup, and guard against injury to Grubauer. Georgiev has a low enough caphit at $2.425m that Colorado could manage carrying 3 goalies.

Timmins has looked decent in his games this season and could step up to fill the role vacated by Graves. Though perhaps a further depth move would be necessary in separate trade as well.

NYR need a two-way top 4 LHD, and already know Graves well. Value and cap wise it's a reasonably balanced trade that gets each team something they need.

NYR have Shesterkin as the clear No.1, and would promote Kinkaid to the backup role.