If the recently completed National Hockey League season was the Year of the Goaltender, then it is easy to understand why the focus of his year's annual entry draft is the bubbly and personable Marc-Andre Fleury, the Cape Breton netminder who starred for Canada at the world junior tournament.

There is a chance Fleury, the 18-year-old from Sorel, Que., could become the second goaltender in four years to go first overall during Saturday's NHL entry draft, to be held in Nashville.
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