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Originally Posted by TheScorpion
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.
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Why would Markstrom leave right when the team is about to get good? The Canucks are going to be back in the playoffs before the Oilers - they have a good nucleus of Pettersson, Boeser and Horvat, Quinn Hughes is a stud, and they're well coached.
That's Markstrom's net. Hockey players generally need a pretty good reason to go to UFA, and the only way that'll happen here is if Vancouver doesn't want him back. We can laugh at Jim Benning all day, and I will, but he hasn't created an organization defined by dysfunction.
I simply don't understand why they would want to move on from Markstrom to go with an option that is guaranteed to be less effective. Demko and McElhinney? He'll be 36 and he's not that good.