The agent representing former Detroit Red Wings goaltender Dominik Hasek claims a half-dozen teams are interested in signing the 47-year-old netminder, who wants to return to the NHL after a four-year absence.

And agent Rich Winter is confident Hasek will play somewhere in the NHL next season.

"He will play," Winter told ProHockeyTalk. "There is no option. He will play and he will excel and he will do all of the things he can do. That's his view of it. There's one objective, and that's it — he won't fail.

"He's done all of the stuff you'd expect a NASA scientist to do before they go into a venture like this. He's measured his reflexes, he's measured his reaction time and it's identical to what it was at the time he won a number of Vezina trophies. He's actually 1.6 pounds off his playing weight at the Nagano Olympics [in 1998].

"Who keeps records like that? I guess Dom. Who knows their body, does reaction time and reflex training and measurement? I guess Dom."

Although Hasek hasn't played in the NHL since he was on the Red Wings' Stanley Cup championship team in 2008, he played for Pardupice HC in the Czech Republic in 2009-10 and then spent the following season with Moscow Spartak of the KHL.

He led Pardupice to league and playoff championships.

Hasek, who won two NHL MVP awards and the Vezina Trophy six times, wants a multi-year contract despite the fact he turns 48 in January.

The Red Wings have no interest in Hasek. They weren't interested even before they signed free-agent goaltender Jonas Gustavsson July 1.

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