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					Originally Posted by CMPunk  That makes no sense. Overpay for a free agent just so you can trade the cheaper version for a pick? | 
	
 
Markstrom is probably at his highest-ever value. They can get an asset for him before he leaves in the summer of 2020 and then sign someone like McElhinney to a one-or-two-year deal in free agency to platoon with Demko. They're rebuilding anyway.
It's like what St. Louis did with Elliott in 2016.