This isn't a terrible position to be in, or at least, it's certainly better than the opposite.
Prospects with a good chance of making the NHL are easier to identify in the draft at forward than at defence, and that fact also means that, in normal trade conditions, a B level defenceman will usually return a B+ or better forward.
On the other hand, it seems to me that it's usually harder to obtain what I would have considered to be full value for a goaltender in a trade. I don't have any theories about why that should be that I find convincing.
