[Enoch Root]

Originally Posted by 1qqaaz

Last year Lehner was 3rd in Vezina voting. Had 93%.
He then signed a 1 year deal for $5 million. His career save percentage was 92%, despite having spent most of his time on Ottawa and a rebuilding Buffalo team.

Halak was the best free agent goalie in 2018. Hardly got any money. His career save percentage is 91.6% (still much higher than Markstrom). He's even better in the playoffs too.

This year, teams are strapped for cap, and the cap is flat for 3 years.
I think Markstrom deserves some money for his last season (which was good, but not that good).
However, anyone would be crazy to give him 4 or more years of term. Not enough of a track record. Too old. Even from 2017 to 2019, in 120 games, he only had 91.2%. Not terribly bad, but nothing special for a goalie in their prime. He is 30 years old (31 in a few months) and has one above average season. One. In a contract year. And he only played 43 games in this one season.

I just can't fathom how so many people think 43 games of 91.8% deserves a $40,000,000 contract. Especially when the player is old and the cap is flat and there are better UFA goalie options next year.

No one is suggesting that. The consensus guess is 5 years x $5-6M. So $25 to 30M